Elyse Is Interested in Studying Aggression

question 246

Multiple Choice

Elyse is interested in studying aggression. To do so, she decides to look at horn-honking behaviour at stop signs and records the number of times someone honks their car horn before the car in front moves on. In this example, horn-honking is the and the
Number of honks recorded is the _.

• A) independent variable; dependent variable
• B) dependent variable; independent variable
• C) dependent variable; error variance
• D) operational definition of aggression; dependent variable
• E) controlled variable; measured variable

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