A researcher wants to study the link between test difficulty and self esteem by giving some people an easy test and others a hard test and then assessing whether these groups differ in self esteem. This researcher is using which of the following approaches?

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The researcher is manipulating the independent variable (test difficulty) and observing its effect on the dependent variable (self-esteem), which is characteristic of an experimental approach.

A Researcher Wants to Study the Link Between Test Difficulty