Juanita, a researcher at a pharmaceutical company, is assessing the effects of an experimental drug on lever pressing behavior in laboratory rats. For this study, what type of variable is lever pressing?

a. Confound variable
b. Experimental variable
c. Independent variable
d. Dependent variable


Ans: D

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