Dr. Bryant gave 40 people a story to read that evoked one of four emotions sad, happy, angry, neutral) then evaluated the number of words that they could remember in a short-term memory task. The degrees of freedom associated with the between-conditions variability for this experiment would be
A) 1
B) 3
C) 36
D) 39

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The degrees of freedom associated with the between-conditions variability is equal to the number of conditions minus one. In this experiment, there are four conditions (sad, happy, angry, neutral), so the degrees of freedom would be 4-1=3.

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