In a Neurological Study of the Effect of Environment on Mental

Multiple Choice

In a neurological study of the effect of environment on mental development, rats were randomly assigned to be raised in one of the four following test conditions: Impoverished (wire mesh cage - housed alone) , Standard (cage with other rats) , Enriched (cage with other rats and toys) , and Super Enriched (cage with other rats and toys changed on a periodic basis) . After two months, the rats were tested on a variety of learning measures, one of them being the number of attempts needed to learn to navigate a maze. The data for the maze task are below, along with means and standard deviation for each group.
-Which of the following plots would be appropriate to investigate the relationship between test condition and number of attempts needed to learn to navigate a maze? Select all that apply.

A) Scatterplot
B) Segmented bar graph
C) Side-by-side boxplots
D) Stacked dot plots