Variables

Question 1

What is the independent variable?

Answer 1

The variable that is changed/ manipulated

Question 2

What is the dependent variable?

Answer 2

The variable that is measured

Question 3

What are extraneous variables?

Answer 3

Extraneous variables are unknowingly affecting the dependent variable

Question 4

What is a participant variable?

Answer 4

The extraneous variables are related to the individual characteristics , anxiety , mood and intelligence , ext

Question 5

What is situational variables?

Answer 5

Extraneous variables are related to things in the environment which impacts participants response ( temperature)

Question 6

What is demand characteristics?

Answer 6

Clues in the environment that suggest how a participant should behave

Question 7

What is experimenter effects?

Answer 7

When a researcher unintentionally suggests clues for how a participant should behave

Question 8

What are confounding variables?

Answer 8

A variables which cant be controlled for/
A type of extraneous variables that only affects dependent variables but also related to the independent variable

Question 9

What are some examples of confounding variables?

Answer 9

• order effects
• social desirability effects
• weather