In study in which some participants are made anxious and others are not, and anxious subjects then do more poorly on a difficult problem, anxiety is
A)a subject variable
B)the dependent variable
C)an extraneous variable being controlled
D)a manipulated independent variable

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Anxiety is a manipulated independent variable because the researchers are intentionally inducing anxiety in some participants to observe its effect on their performance on a difficult problem.

In Study in Which Some Participants Are Made Anxious and Others