Data Set 1-8: Kevin recruited 40 volunteers for his study, which studied the effect on a person's trust of having grown up in a two-parent or a one-parent family. Students were recruited from General Psychology classes. Students filled out the Rempel Trust Scale and also indicated their family's status.
-In Data Set 1-8, some students were from one-parent homes and some were from two-parent homes. This constitutes the (an) _____ variable.
A) dependent
B) independent
C) extraneous
D) ratio

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The family status (one-parent or two-parent homes) is the independent variable because it is the variable that is manipulated or categorized to observe its effect on the dependent variable, which in this case would be the trust levels measured by the Rempel Trust Scale.

Data Set 1-8: Kevin Recruited 40 Volunteers for His Study