Suppose that you are conducting an experiment to see whether receiving negative feedback from an authority figure will increase eating behaviour.After writing an essay, half of your research participants are given negative feedback from a professor, and half are given encouraging feedback.All participants are then placed in a room with a large container of biscuits and their eating behaviour is observed.In this study, an operational definition for the dependent variable might be ____.
A)whether participants received critical or encouraging feedback
B)the number of words in each participant's essay
C)the number of biscuits each participant ate
D)how many minutes the professor spent giving each participant feedback

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The dependent variable in this experiment is the eating behaviour, which is being observed and measured by counting the number of biscuits each participant eats. Options A, B, and D are all related to the independent variable, which is the type of feedback received from the professor. None of these options accurately define the dependent variable.

Suppose That You Are Conducting an Experiment to See Whether