Question

Professor Nguyen is thinking about using an experimental design to study the impact of mood on reading comprehension. She is going to use two different groups: one will be manipulated to be in a happy mood, the other will group will be the control group. Professor Nguyen will then measure the participants' understanding of a short text using a reading comprehension score, which would be considered the _____ variable. Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button. dependent

Answer 1

Answer:

Dependent

Explanation:

In research, we have two different types of variables:

• The independent variable is the one that the researchers can control and that will have an effect on another variable.

• The dependent variable is the one that cannot be control and that is affected by the independent variable. Researchers observe this variable to see how it changes. This is the variable that will be tested or measured.

In this example Professor Nguyen wants to study the impact of mood on reading comprehension. In other words, he's trying to see the effect mood has on reading comprehension. We can see that reading comprehension will be the variable that is being affected and that will also be measured (using a reading comprehension score), therefore this would be considered the dependent variable.