A specific amount or category of the independent variable that creates the specific situation under ...

A specific amount or category of the independent variable that creates the specific situation under which the participants' scores on some other variable are measured is called a(n)
 
  a. independent variable. c. condition.
  b. dependent variable. d. statistic.

Question 2

Technically, behavior-influencing variables that an experimenter cannot change by doing something to participants are called a(n)
 
  a. independent variable. c. dependent variable.
  b. quasi-independent variable. d. quasi-dependent variable.

Question 3

Suppose you are interested in how participants perform under different temperature conditions. You randomly select 30 participants and randomly assign them to work in one of three rooms. The rooms differ only with respect to temperature. You instruct all participants to solve the same jigsaw puzzle, and then you measure how long it takes each one to finish. In this research, temperature serves as the
 
  a. condition. c. dependent variable.
  b. independent variable. d. sample.

Question 4

The variable that is systematically changed or manipulated by a researcher in an experiment is called the
 
  a. independent variable. c. dependent variable.
  b. correlational variable. d. extraneous variable.