Your text describes a study in which data revealed that participants attended to a cake rather than at an inedible object immediately on hearing the word eat, and before the word cake was heard. In this experiment, the __________ variable consisted of __________ data.
A) dependent; reaction time
B) dependent; eye movement
C) independent; reaction time
D) independent; eye movement

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The dependent variable is what is being measured in the experiment, which in this case is where participants looked (eye movement) upon hearing certain words. This indicates that eye movement data were collected to assess the effect of hearing the word "eat" on attention to different objects.

Your Text Describes a Study in Which Data Revealed That