I am a little confused on this question , please help! please don't just list the answers , if you can explain how you got your answer that would be great. Thank you for your help.I have attached the problem .Please view attachments before answering. Imagine you are a researcher interested in the effects of marijuana onbeliefs in conspiracy theories. The study involves two groups, to whichpeople are assigned by chance: Group A takes a pill that contains theactive ingredient in cannabis, THC, while Group B are given a harmlessplacebo pill. Neither the people conducting the study nor the participantsknow who is getting the drug and who is not. After taking the pill andcompleting some filler tasks, participants are given a series of surveys tocomplete. One of these theories asks them to indicate the extent towhich they believe in different conspiracy surveys (e.g., a secret group likethe Illuminati controls the world, Obama was not born in the US & issecretly a Muslim, 9/11 was an inside job, the moon landing was faked).The independent variable in the above study isthe placeboO paranoiaO marijuana (THC)conspiracy theoriessurveysgender

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Author:Saundra K. Ciccarelli, J. Noland White

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I am a little confused on this question , please help! please don't just list the answers , if you can explain how you got your answer that would be great. Thank you for your help.

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Imagine you are a researcher interested in the effects of marijuana on
beliefs in conspiracy theories. The study involves two groups, to which
people are assigned by chance: Group A takes a pill that contains the
active ingredient in cannabis, THC, while Group B are given a harmless
placebo pill. Neither the people conducting the study nor the participants
know who is getting the drug and who is not. After taking the pill and
completing some filler tasks, participants are given a series of surveys to
complete. One of these theories asks them to indicate the extent to
which they believe in different conspiracy surveys (e.g., a secret group like
the Illuminati controls the world, Obama was not born in the US & is
secretly a Muslim, 9/11 was an inside job, the moon landing was faked).
The independent variable in the above study is
the placebo
O paranoia
O marijuana (THC)
conspiracy theories
surveys
gender

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Experiments are very important in psychological research. The experimenter controls the extraneous variable by keeping characteristics constant, by systematic randomization, etc. The experimenter uses variables like dependent, independent, moderator, and mediator variables in the experiment. Lets us now see the variables in the given study on the "effect of marijuana on beliefs in conspiracy theories".