Listed below are additional research questions and hypotheses from actual published articles. For each hypothesis, identify the independent and dependent variable.

a. “It is expected that achievement motivation will be a positive predictor of academic success”

b. “Men are expected to employ physical characteristics (particularly those that are directly related to sex) more often than women in selecting dating candidates”

c. “The purpose of our study was to gain a better understanding of the relationship between social functioning and problem drinking…. We predicted that problem drinkers would endorse more social deficits than nonproblem drinkers”

d. “We predicted that people in gain-framed conditions would show greater intention to use sunscreen … than those people in loss-framed conditions”

e. “Students with learning disabilities who received self-regulation training would obtain higher reading comprehension scores than students (with learning disabilities) in the control group”

f. “We hypothesized that consumers would think that a ‘sale price’ presentation would generate a greater monetary savings than an ‘everyday low price’

presentation”

g. “We hypothesize that physical coldness (vs. warmth) would activate a need for psychological warmth, which in turn increases consumers' liking of romance movies”