Question

​Dr. Hines is interested in studying how indoor lighting can influence people's moods during the winter. A sample of 100 households is selected. Fifty of the homes are randomly assigned to the bright-light condition where Dr. Hones replaces all the lights with 100-watt bulbs. In the other 50 houses, all the lights are changed to 60-watt bulbs. After two months, Dr. Hines measures the level of depression for the people living in the houses. In this example, the level of depression is the ____ variable

Answer 1

Dependent variable

Explanation:

Variable is used in experimental studies. Variable could be anything such as age, gender, material, chemical, gene, intelligence, motivation, etc.

There are many types of variables

• Independent variable

Dependent variable: The dependent variable is those variables that could not manipulate in the experiment. These variables show the manipulation of the independent variable. These variables become stable.

• Discrete variable

• Orgasmic varying;e

• Extraneous variable

Thus here in the above statement, depression is a dependent variable that could not be manipulated by the experimenter.