Independent and Dependent Variables an Experimenter Provided Two Groups of Rats

question 48

Multiple Choice

Independent and Dependent Variables An experimenter provided two groups of rats different quantities of food for successfully completing the same maze.She controlled the kind of food and the amount of time the rats had access to the food.She reported that both groups of rats committed the same number of errors in learning the maze.The number of errors was

• A)a confounding variable.
• B)a subject variable.
• C)the dependent variable.
• D)the independent variable.

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