Question

Harrison et al. are conducting a study assessing the ability of depressed versus non-depressed participants to remember negative emotions in a short story about a family whose car breaks down. They plan to ask participants to read the story and then make a list of the emotions expressed in the story. Before beginning the study, they make a list of negative emotions (e.g., sadness and anger) that they will record from the participants’ responses. In this example, negative emotions are the ________.

Answer 1

Answer:

dependent variable

Explanation:

In an experiment while trying to identify the relation between two variables how one variable changes with respect to the other variable is recorded and analyzed.

When one variable changes irrespective of the other it is the independent variable.

When a variable changes with respect to the independent variable it is a dependent variable.

Here, the emergence of negative emotions after reading a sad story by depressed and non-depressed participants is recorded. Hence, the negative emotions are the dependent variables.