Question

Jayshawn is conducting a research study for his psychology course. he is studying whether playing violent video games causes children to engage in aggressive acts afterwards. he randomly assigns children to two conditions: one group receives a violent video game to play for a half-hour and another group of children receives no video game to play. he then measures their tendency to act aggressively by having them play with a bobo doll (punching bag) and recording their aggression toward the object. the number of times the children punch the bobo doll is referred to as the ______ in this expierment

Answer 1

the number of times the children punch the bobo doll would be the dependent variable in this experiment. Whether or not the children punch the bag and the number of times depends of whether or not they were exposed to the violent games.

Answer 2

Dependent variable

Step-by-step explanation:

When we conduct an experiment, the two variables we have are the dependent and the independent variables. The independent variable is the one that is changed or controlled in the experiment. The experiment attempts to find the effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable. Therefore, the dependent variable is the one that measures the effect of the manipulation.