In the Friedrich and Stein study on the influence of television on aggression, the type of television show watched (aggressive, prosocial, or neutral) represented the ____ variable in the experiment.

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The type of television show watched is the independent variable, as it is manipulated by the experimenters and is hypothesized to cause changes in the dependent variable (aggression). The extraneous variable refers to any variable that may have an unintended effect on the dependent variable, the dependent variable is the outcome variable being measured, and confounding variable is a variable that is related to both the independent and dependent variables, making it difficult to determine which variable is causing changes in the dependent variable.

In the Friedrich and Stein Study on the Influence of Television