Danica Put Spouses in Separate Rooms, Asked Them to Complete

Multiple Choice

Danica put spouses in separate rooms, asked them to complete relationship satisfaction ratings, and then videotaped all participants giving a brief speech, which she said their partners would later watch. After the speech, participants were provided with written false feedback presumably provided by their partners, and then they rated their relationship satisfaction again. Danica then assessed how evaluations of relationship satisfaction changed when participants received three different types of false feedback. In one condition, the feedback was positive and reassuring, in the second it was negative and critical, and in the third it was mixed. In this experiment, the independent variable is ________ and the dependent variable is ________.

A) the false feedback; the relationship satisfaction
B) the relationship satisfaction; the false feedback
C) the speech; the false feedback
D) the speech; the relationship satisfaction