Question

A harvard research team investigated the effects of two vocabulary learning strategies on word retention two weeks later. in this example, learning strategy is the ________ variable and word retention is the ________ variable. control; experimental experimental; control independent; dependent

Answer 1

The example shows that learning strategy is the independent variable, assumed to have a direct effect on the dependent variable and word retention is the dependent variable, measured after making changes to the independent variable that are assumed to affect the direct variable.