In a study to determine whether viewing pictures of poverty-stricken children increases the tendency for people to donate money to charity,the experimental group sees pictures of poor children before being asked to donate to charity.The control groups sees pictures of random landscapes.In this study,the operational definition of the dependent variable is the

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The operational definition of the dependent variable is the amount that the experimental group chooses to donate. This is because the study is specifically looking at whether the viewing of poverty-stricken children increases the tendency to donate money to charity. The amount that is donated would be the best indicator of whether or not this is true. The choice of landscape pictures (A) does not directly relate to the dependent variable, nor does the gender of the children in the pictures (C) or the gender ratio in the groups (D).

In a Study to Determine Whether Viewing Pictures of Poverty-Stricken