A Variable That Is Predicted to Be Affected by an Experimenter's

question 246

Multiple Choice

A variable that is predicted to be affected by an experimenter's manipulations in experimental research is called a(n) :

• A) extraneous variable.
• B) dependent variable.
• C) confounding variable.
• D) independent variable.

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