Identify and describe the four types of independent variables according to type of manipulation
What will be an ideal response?
(a) Task variable–The independent variable is set up so that participants in different conditions engage in different tasks.
(b) Instructional variable–The IV is set up so that participants in different conditions receive different instructions about what they are going to do.
(c) Situational variable–The IV is set up so that the context or setting of the experiment differs across groups.
(d) Subject variable–The IV is set up so that comparisons are made between two groups of people who differ in some pre-existing way (e.g., sex, political affiliation, etc.)
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