Castiel is a psychologist who is interested in seeing how autonomic nervous system responses are related to subjective feelings of fear. Half the participants in Castiel's experiment watch a 10-minute graphic and violent video and the other half watch a 10-minute video of a baby kitten. While the participants are watching the video, Castiel gathers measurements of their skin conductance. After they finish watching the video the participants answer a questionnaire about their level of fear after watching the video as well as how they generally react to horror movies.
-In Castiel's experiment what is the dependent variable

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The dependent variable is the variable being measured and is expected to change in response to the independent variable (the variable being manipulated). In this experiment, skin conductance is being measured and is expected to change based on whether the participants watched the violent or kitten video, and their subjective level of fear. Therefore, skin conductance is the dependent variable.

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