EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -The dependent variable is the effect. Its value depends on changes in the independent variable.

Detailed explanation-2: -The independent variable is what you change, and the dependent variable is what changes as a result of that. You can also think of the independent variable as the cause and the dependent variable as the effect.

Detailed explanation-3: -One way to help identify the dependent variable is to remember that it depends on the independent variable. When researchers make changes to the independent variable, they then measure any resulting changes to the dependent variable.

Detailed explanation-4: -(Independent variable) causes a change in (Dependent Variable) and it isn’t possible that (Dependent Variable) could cause a change in (Independent Variable).

Detailed explanation-5: -The independent variable is the variable the experimenter manipulates or changes and is assumed to directly affect the dependent variable. For example, allocating participants to drug or placebo conditions (independent variable) to measure any changes in the intensity of their anxiety (dependent variable).