Question

A researcher measures the galvanic skin response (gsr), or degree of sweating, of people holding a clear plastic jar containing a spider. she compares the gsrs of people with spider phobias with the gsrs of people without spider phobias. in this experiment, the galvanic skin response functions as the

Answer 1

The correct is the dependent variable.

In research studies, a dependent variable (DV) refers to an outcome variable that occurs as a result of manipulating an independent variable (IV). The DV is simply the variable or finding in a study that is being tested and recorded. In this instance, galvanic skin response (GSR) is the DV because it is subject to and associated with whether or not a participant has been holding the jar with a spider in it.