Author Question: When research participants listen to different types directions that might change their behavior ... (Read 52 times)

cabate · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

When research participants listen to different types directions that might change their behavior regarding the dependent variable, we know that the independent variable is

a. a situational variable.
b. a subject variable.
c. an instructional variable.
d. a participant variable.

Question 2

Psychologists Rowe and McKenna (2001) asked participants in one group to watch a video of a tennis player and make a judgment of the outcome of the point.

Participants in a second group watched the video while engaged in a distracting behavior, generating a stream of random letters of the alphabet. In this study, the independent variable is
a. a situational variable.
b. a task variable.
c. a subject variable.
d. a instructional variable.