If you are interested in the effects of sleep deprivation on aggression and you vary the number of hours that different groups of participants go without sleep, the amount of aggression displayed is your:
a. independent variable
b. intervening variable
c. experimental variable
d. controlled variable
e. dependent variable
Ans: E
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