Juan Is Interested in His Peers' Responses in Reaction to Spiders

question 52

Multiple Choice

Juan is interested in his peers' responses in reaction to spiders. He designs an experimental paradigm where he has fake spiders and real spiders and then monitors his peers' fear responses. Based on Juan's design which variable is the independent variable (IV) ?

• A) fear responses
• B) type of spider
• C) diagnosis of arachnophobia
• D) age of peers

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