Shantae Is Doing an Experiment on How Anxious People Will

question 72

Multiple Choice

Shantae is doing an experiment on how anxious people will feel if they are told that they did not do well on an intelligence test.She asks her participants to rate how nervous,upset,and anxious they feel on a scale from 1 (not at all) to 7 (very) .Participant's scores on the scale are a(n) ____.

• A) operational definition of anxiety
• B) independent variable
• C) confounding variable
• D) empirical definition of anxiety

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Definitions:

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Classical Economists

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