During a Study to Measure the Effects of Violent Video

question 18

Multiple Choice

During a study to measure the effects of violent video games on aggressive behavior,the researchers learned that a portion of the subjects lived in homes with one or more alcoholic parents.In this study,the presence of an alcoholic parent is a(n)

• A) confounding variable.
• B) dependent variable.
• C) independent variable.
• D) unrecognized variable.

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