A researcher employs an IV × PV design to examine attitudes toward cheating. She presents freshmen from a private university with a written account describing a male or female student who was accused of cheating on an exam. The same procedure is repeated for a sample of freshmen from a public university. After reading the account, the students were asked to assign an appropriate punishment. The PV in this design would be the:
A)gender of the student accused of cheating.
B)university attended (private or public).
C)class level of the participants (freshmen).
D)punishment assigned.

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The PV (participant variable) in this design is the university attended (private or public). This is the variable that differentiates the two groups of participants being studied. The IV (independent variable) is the gender of the student accused of cheating, which is the variable being manipulated by the researcher. The DV (dependent variable) is the punishment assigned, which is the variable being measured. The class level of the participants (freshmen) is not a variable being manipulated or measured in this study.

A Researcher Employs an IV × PV Design to Examine