In the Friedrich and Stein Study on the Influence of Television

question 37

Multiple Choice

In the Friedrich and Stein study on the influence of television on aggression, the type of television show watched (aggressive, prosocial, or neutral) represented the ____ variable in the experiment.

• A) extraneous
• B) dependent
• C) independent
• D) confounding

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