The measures of changes in behavior that occur as a result of the manipulation of conditions by an experimenter are called:
a. dependent variable changes.
b. independent variable changes.
c. control group manipulations.
d. independent constants.
a
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a. analogy c. analysis b. algorithm d. anagram
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