A Stress Researcher Wants to Look at the Effect of Meditation

question 86

Multiple Choice

A stress researcher wants to look at the effect of meditation on anxiety. To do this, she creates two groups of subjects: one group receives instruction in meditation, while the other receives no training at all. One month later, she has subjects complete a questionnaire designed to measure anxiety and she looks to see whether there are any differences in anxiety between the two groups. In this experiment, the meditation condition (meditation vs. no meditation) is the independent variable and anxiety is the _____________ variable.

• A)independent
• B)dependent
• C)correlational
• D)confounding

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