An experiment was conducted to compare participant responses to two different social situations. All participants viewed a scene with two children playing cooperatively and a scene with two children arguing while playing. Participants responded to a questionnaire measuring anxiety after viewing each scene to determine if the type of scene viewed had an effect on anxiety scores. The appropriate statistical test to analyze the data in this study is ______.
A) a one-sample t test
B) an independent samples t test
C) a paired samples t test
D) an ANOVA

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A paired samples t test is appropriate for comparing the anxiety scores of participants after viewing two different social situations (i.e. cooperative play vs. argumentative play) as they are the same participants responding to both situations.

An Experiment Was Conducted to Compare Participant Responses to Two