A psychologist wants to measure the effect of music on memory. He randomly selects 80 students andmeasures their scores on a memory test conducted in silence. The next day he measures their scores on asimilar test conducted while classical music is playing. The mean score without music is compared to themean score with music.
A) quantitative, dependent
B) qualitative, dependent
C) quantitative, independent
D) qualitative, independent

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The psychologist is measuring scores, which are numerical and thus quantitative. The same group of students is tested under both conditions (with and without music), making the scores dependent on the condition.

A Psychologist Wants to Measure the Effect of Music on Memory