A stress researcher wants to look at the effect of meditation on anxiety. To do this, she creates two groups of subjects: one group receives instruction in meditation, while the other receives no training at all. One month later, she has subjects complete a questionnaire designed to measure anxiety and she looks to see whether there are any differences in anxiety between the two groups. In this experiment, the meditation
Condition (meditation vs. no meditation) is the independent variable and anxiety is the
________ variable.

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Anxiety is the dependent variable because it is the outcome being measured to see if it changes due to the manipulation of the independent variable, which is the meditation condition.

A Stress Researcher Wants to Look at the Effect of Meditation