A Researcher Was Interested in Assessing Whether a New Medication

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Multiple Choice

A researcher was interested in assessing whether a new medication had negative side effects on reaction time.He performed an experiment on a group of rats.One group of rats received the medication, and the other group of rats did not.He then measured reaction time differences between the two groups on a series of tasks.In this experiment, the dependent variable is:

• A) reaction time.
• B) tasks.
• C) rats.
• D) medication.

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