Introduction to Learning and Behavior 4th Edition by Marcia Darvin Spada, Russell Powell, Lynne Honey,Diane Symbaluk

Exercise 1

A researcher is interested in studying the effects of viewing television violence on aggression in children. She shows one group of participants an extremely violent movie, another group a moderately violent movie, and a third group a nonviolent movie. In this case, the level of movie violence shown to the children would be considered the ______ variable, and the children's subsequent level of aggressive behavior would be the ______ variable.