In an Experiment Designed to Determine the Effects of Televised

question 80

Multiple Choice

In an experiment designed to determine the effects of televised violence on children's aggressive behavior

• A) random assignment of children to experimental conditions is not a useful control because children naturally differ in the amounts of TV violence they watch
• B) the amount of televised violence children are allowed to view is the dependent variable
• C) children's aggressive behaviors are the independent variable
• D) none of these

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