Design elements
The Independent Variables (IVs) were the smell of the citrus scented all-purpose cleaner and the 40 words that the respondents were supposed to identify (Holland, Hendriks & Aarts, 2005). The number of questions that respondents were able to identify, the listing of the activities that the respondents planned to do that day as well as the tendency to clean up while eating the crumbling cookie were all dependent variables. These activities were dependent on the presence or absence of scent in the room where a participant was placed. Operational definitions were the place (cubicle), the quantity of the diffused all-purpose cleaner ( ...