An experimenter wants to determine if taking a specific amount of the drug Prozac relieves depression. Which element will be most in need of an operational definition in this study??
a. ?The dependent variable
b. ?The independent variable
c. ?The inferential statistic
d. ?An experimental confound
ANSWER:
a
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