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2 Running and sleep. Sufficient sleep is important for adolescents for both their neural and psychological development. Despite this, daytıme sleepiness and poor physical and psychological functioning related to chronic sleep disturbances are common. There is a growing body of evidence that exercise is associated with both better sleep and improved psychological functioning Sixty participants were recruited from a high school in northwesten SwitzerlandThey were randomly assigned to either a running group or a control group, 30 to each group The running group ran every moming for a little over 30 minutes on weekdays for a three-week period. All participants used a sleep log for subjective evaluation of sleep, and sleep was also objectively assessed at the beginning and end of the study using a sleep electroencephalographic device that measured quantities such as sleep efficiency and time spent in the four different sleep phases. Running was found to have a positive impact on both objective and subjective measures of sleep functioning What are the explanatory variable(s) and the response variable(s)? (a) Outline the design of the experiment (b) (c) Here are some more details on the treatment and control groups. All participants arrived at school at 7 a.m., and the running group did two laps on the track and then ran cross countrv in groups of at least four people for 30 minutes The control group remained seated at the track, worked on horpework. and interacted with each other. When the runners returned, all participants prepared for school and ate a breaktast that was provided. IWhy do you think the experimenters had the control group arrive at 7 am interact withdassmates and have breaktast together? Explain. Do you think having the control eroup do these activities is important for the ypes of conclusion that can be reached? How?

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a) What are the explanatory variable(s) and respinse varaible(s)?

The explanatory variable is Running or not

Mesuaring the runners and non runners objectives and subjective sleep quantity.

The response variable is Sleep quantity

Mesuaring the runners and non runners objectives and subjective sleep quantity and time spent on four different phases.

C) why do you think the experimenters had the control group arrive at 7 am., interact with calssmates, and have breakfast together?

control group was treated like running group in an attempt to eliminate lurking variables.

Do you think having the control group do these activities is important for the types of conclusions that can be reached? How?

It is very important that all subjects be treated as alike as possible in order to reduce the impact of bisases the students might hold against other group.