A cognitive psychologist designed an investigation to study the effect of auditory distraction on working memory performance during a reading comprehension task. One group of participants read a 500-word technical article and completed a comprehension test while listening to loud instrumental rock music, while the other group completed the same task in complete silence.
State the fully operationalised independent variable (IV) and the fully operationalised dependent variable (DV) for this investigation.
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