Question

Mr. louise, a psychologist, is interested in the effect of physical attractiveness on ratings of punishment assigned to a driver in an automobile accident. participants read an account of the accident and received a written description of a physically attractive or unattractive defendant. the manipulation of attractiveness would be an example of a _____ manipulation

Answer 1

The correct answer is straightforward manipulation. This is a way of manipulating variables with the use of stimulus presentations or instructions by which it stages events that are to occur during an experiment in order to be able to manipulate an independent variable.