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PSY 2030 -Assignment 1: One -Sample Tests

Due by Sunday, April 5th, at 11:30 PM (but can be submitted any time prior to deadline)

Scores out of 25 (11 points for Question ! and 14 points) for Question 2)

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Question #1 A researcher wonders whether mood influences impulsive eating. She recruited 11 participants and randomly assigned them to go through a negative mood induction task AND a positive mood induction task (order of tasks was counterbalanced). After each condition's mood induction task, participants were provided with a bowl of M&M candies, and the researcher measured how many M&M candies the participant ate. The data are presented below.

The researcher expected that there would be a difference in candy eating based on mood. Using alpha=.05, conduct the 8 steps to hypothesis testing to determine whether mood affected the amount of candy eaten.

Negative Mood Positive Mood

40 25

26 27

22 21

38 32

27 28

33 31

30 26

34 10

24 18

36 35

38 36

Answer 1