When Researching the Effects of Fear on People's Tendency to Affiliate

Multiple Choice

When researching the effects of fear on people's tendency to affiliate with others, researchers wanted to verify that their fear induction manipulation actually made half of their participants more afraid during the study, so they wrote the following item, "how afraid do you feel right now," and mixed it in with other items on affective states. This item is:

A) an independent variable
B) a dependent variable
C) a moderator variable
D) a manipulation check