Consider the following relationship between violent material and aggressive behavior: Violent TV arousal aggressive behavior. In this case, arousal can be described as a
A) predictor variable.
B) mediating variable.
C) common causal variable.
D) extraneous variable.

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In this context, arousal acts as a mediating variable because it is the mechanism through which exposure to violent TV leads to aggressive behavior. It is the intermediate step that explains how or why the initial variable (violent TV) influences the outcome variable (aggressive behavior).

Consider the Following Relationship Between Violent Material and Aggressive Behavior