You've just completed a depleting, or mentally draining task. After doing so do you think you would perform better than, the same as, or worse than other participants on a new task that requires you to be creative if the task is described as hard (as compared to if that task is described as easy)? In this experiment, participants in the control group (the non-depleted group) were given 4 minutes to write a short story about a place they had recently visited (a relatively easy task). A second group of participants (the depleted group) was given the same task but they were told not to use the letters "U" and "K" in the story-a mucher harder task.

You've just completed a depleting, or mentally draining task. After doing so do you think you would perform better than, the same as, or worse than other participants on a new task that requires you to be creative if the task is described as hard (as compared to if that task is described as easy)?

In this experiment, participants in the control group (the non-depleted group) were given 4 minutes to write a short story about a place they had recently visited (a relatively easy task). A second group of participants (the depleted group) was given the same task but they were told not to use the letters "U" and "K" in the story-a mucher harder task.

After the first task, all participants were told that they would next participate in a study of creativity. They were told that while creativity sometimes arises through inspiration, it can also come about through perseverance. All participants were told that they should use perseverance to get through the creative task. The catch? Half of the participants were told that perseverance on the task was hard. For the creative task, all participants were asked to come up with as many creative uses for a cord as possible. The researchers then counted the number of creative uses generated by each participant. In a section of their paper called, "Participants (N=112; M=21.78 years; 36 males. received course credit, were paid C 7, and were randomly assigned to a 2 (depletion vs. no delation) x 2 (perseverance described as [hard] vs. easy) between-subjects design.

What does this description tell us about the research design of the experiment?

a. Both have 2 dependant variables, both have 2 levels, and all participants were in all conditions.

b. Both have 2 dependant variables, both have 2 levels, and participants were in only one condition.

c. Both have 2 independent variables, both have 2 levels, and all participants were in all conditions.

d. Both have 2 independent variables, both have 2 levels, and participants were only in one condition.