Question:

Please report theF-test outcomes, of the 'Tests of Between-Subjects Effects" table 2 (below) for the independent variable and the covariate in the model.

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A psychologist was interested in the effects of different fear information on children's beliefs about an animal. The study situation look as follows:

Table 1. Study Table

Group	Shown pic of quoll*	Told negative story	Told positive story	Told no story
A	x	x
B	x		x
C	x			x

*Animal they have never seen before

After the storyperiod, children in Groups A, B & C rated how scared they would be if they met a quoll, on a scale ranging from 1 (not at all scared) to 5 (very scared indeed).

Notethat to account for the natural anxiousness of each child, a questionnaire measure of trait anxiety was given to the children before the study took place and used in the analysis.

Table 2.

Tests of Between-Subjects Effects

Dependent Variable: Fear of Animal

Source	Type III Sum of Squares	df	Mean Square	F	Sig.
Corrected Model	21.557	3	7.186	8.141	.000
Intercept	96.249	1	96.249	109.050	.000
Natural Fear Level	4.924	1	4.924	5.579	.022
Type of Information	13.567	2	6.783	7.685	.001
Error	49.426	56	.883
Total	605.000	60
Corrected Total	70.983	59

a. R Squared = .304 (Adjusted R Squared = .266)