In a study on the effects of sleep on driving performance,driving performance would be the
A)control group.
B)independent variable.
C)experimental group.
D)dependent variable.

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Driving performance is the variable being measured and therefore, the dependent variable. The study is looking at how sleep affects this variable and sleep is the independent variable being manipulated. The control and experimental groups are typically used to compare the effects of the independent variable, in this case sleep, on the dependent variable of driving performance. However, they are not the variable of interest in this question.

In a Study on the Effects of Sleep on Driving