During a study to measure the effects of violent video games on aggressive behavior, the researchers learned that a portion of the subjects lived in homes with one or more alcoholic parents. In this study, the presence of an alcoholic parent is a(n)
a. confounding variable.
b. dependent variable.
c. independent variable.
d. unrecognized variable.
ANS: A
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