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A Researcher, Based on Her Review of Relevant Scientific Studies

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A researcher, based on her review of relevant scientific studies, believes that there is a relationship between the frequency of a baby's crying and whether it was nursed at set intervals or on a demand schedule. If this belief were tested by experimentally manipulating feeding schedules, frequency of crying would be called the:
a. latent factor.
b. dependent variable.
c. independent variable.
d. control factor.


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