A publishing company does a study to determine whether using a particular textbook improves performance on psychology exams. In this study, marks on the psychology exams would constitute the ____variable.

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The marks on the psychology exams are being measured in order to determine the impact of using a particular textbook. Therefore, the marks on the exam are the dependent variable in this study. The independent variable would be the use of the particular textbook, and the correlational variable refers to the strength of the relationship between the two variables (if a correlation analysis were being conducted). The manipulated variable would refer to the variable that is intentionally changed or manipulated by the researchers in order to observe its effect on another variable.

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