What is an extraneous variable?

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What is an extraneous variable?
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Read the following scenario and answer the questions that follow
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An experimenter wants to determine whether an all-natural suppler
treating anxiety She assigns one group of participants to receive t
while the other group receives a placebo. 75% of participants who
improvement in their anxiety-related symptoms while 24% of those L
improvement.
1. What is the independent variable in this study?
2. What is the dependent variable in this study?
3. What is one possible extraneous variable in this study?
4. Who is the control group?
5. Who is the experimental group?
6. How might researcher bias have influenced the results of this study? A
complete sentences.
7. Did this study prove causation - does the drug cause improvements in
Why or why not? Answer should be 2-4 complete sentences.
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Transcribed Image Text:Instructions Read the following scenario and answer the questions that follow Scenario An experimenter wants to determine whether an all-natural suppler treating anxiety She assigns one group of participants to receive t while the other group receives a placebo. 75% of participants who improvement in their anxiety-related symptoms while 24% of those L improvement. 1. What is the independent variable in this study? 2. What is the dependent variable in this study? 3. What is one possible extraneous variable in this study? 4. Who is the control group? 5. Who is the experimental group? 6. How might researcher bias have influenced the results of this study? A complete sentences. 7. Did this study prove causation - does the drug cause improvements in Why or why not? Answer should be 2-4 complete sentences. Start Date Sep 26. 2021 12:00 AM Lnd Date Submit Cancel
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Extraneous variables refer to all the variables that are not independent variables and affect the results of the experiment. These variables usually need to be controlled as they can affect the results of the experiment. They are also referred to as confounding variables. 

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