Researchers at IBM think that employees who get to chose their own working hours will be more satisfied than those who do not. To test this idea, IBM employees at the Dallas facility are told that they can chose their own hours. Six months later, the satisfaction level of employees in the Dallas facility is compared to employees in the Knoxville facility. The employees in the Knoxville facility
are considered the:
a. dependent variable
b. control group
c. experimental group
d. independent variable
b
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a) Implicit memor b) Explicit memory c) Modal memory d) Working memory