When We Manipulate, or Assign Participants to Different Conditions Of

question 141

Multiple Choice

When we manipulate, or assign participants to different conditions of, a variable, what are we manipulating?

• A) the independent variable
• B) the dependent variable
• C) both the independent and the dependent variable
• D) the correlation coefficient

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