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GATE 2024 XH5 (Psychology) – Question 29

Research Methods and Statistics · Designing Research: Research problems, purpose statement, variables and operational definitions, hypothesis, sampling · 1 mark · Multiple choice

A researcher performs an experiment to learn if room temperature affects the amount of aggression displayed by college students under crowded conditions in a simulated prison environment. In this experiment, the independent variable is:

  1. Aggression
  2. Crowding
  3. Room temperature
  4. Simulated prison

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Correct answer: (C) Room temperature

Explanation

The researcher changes the room temperature and measures aggression, so temperature is the independent variable and aggression the dependent variable.