In a Study Reported in Your Text (Feng, Spence

question 134

Multiple Choice

In a study reported in your text (Feng, Spence, & Pratt, 2007) , male and female participants played a video game for 10 hours. The researchers measured participants' spatial skills before and after the game. The spatial skills measure is the __________ variable; it should appear on the _____-axis in a graph of the study's results.

• A) independent; x
• B) independent; y
• C) dependent; x
• D) dependent; y

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Definitions:

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