A Researcher Employs an IV × PV Design to Examine

Multiple Choice

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.