Jon Believes That Exercise Is a Cause of Higher Levels

question 66

Multiple Choice

Jon believes that exercise is a cause of higher levels of life satisfaction.If Jon plans to study this hypothesis experimentally,his independent variable would be the ____.

• A) amount of exercise his participants receive
• B) level of life satisfaction before the exercise
• C) level of life satisfaction after the exercise
• D) physical health of his participants

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Definitions:

Regression Analysis

A statistical method used to model the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables.

Dependent Variables

Variables in an experiment that are expected to change as a result of an experimental manipulation of the independent variable(s).

Independent Variables

Factors that are manipulated or selected by the researcher to determine their effect on an outcome.

Multivariate Analysis of Variance

A statistical method used to compare group means on several dependent variables simultaneously.