A researcher is interested in examining the relationship between one's actual memory abilities and one's perception of how good his or her memory abilities are. Subjects in this study are given a study list of words and asked to remember these words after a short delay. They are also given a questionnaire and asked how good the subject thinks his or her memory is, where a high score means the subject thinks he or she has high memory abilities. The researcher finds a small but positive relationship between the memory test scores and the questionnaire scores.Which of the following are dependent (response)variables in this study? (Choose all that apply)
A. the delay between the study list and the memory test
B. the score on the questionnaire
C. the score on the memory test
D. the number of words in the study list
Answer: C
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