Professor Marshall wants to know whether eating sweets before bedtime causes children to take longer to fall asleep. In his experiment, whether or not a sweet is given before bedtime is the:

a. independent variable.
b. dependent variable.
c. control variable.
d. extraneous variable.


Answer: a

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