Brittney is interested in the relationship between caloric intake and emotional arousal. She creates a carefully measured array of attractive snack foods. Brittney allows participants to eat as much of various snacks as they want while completing a written measure of emotional arousal. She then calculates the calories they consumed based on the amount of food that is left and looks at the relationship between the amount of calories each participant consumed and his or her emotional arousal score. What research strategy is being used?

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Adalynn French

27 October, 10:57

Brittney is interested in the relationship between caloric intake and emotional arousal. She creates a carefully measured array of attractive snack foods. Brittney allows participants to eat as much of various snacks as they want while completing a written measure of emotional arousal. She then calculates the calories they consumed based on the amount of food that is left and looks at the relationship between the amount of calories each participant consumed and his or her emotional arousal score. What research strategy is being used?

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Correlational

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A correlational study is a type of research design where a researcher seeks to understand what kind of relationships naturally occurring variables have with one another. A naturally occurring variable is a variable that the researcher is not controlling in any way. Brittney is interested in the relationship between variable 1 caloric intake and variable 2 emotional arousal. The act of her calculating the amount of calories each partipant consumed and his or her emotional arousal score is trying to find a correlation