Bower et al. (1969) asked some participants to learn hierarchically organized words. Other participants were asked to learn the same words arranged randomly. All participants were later required to recall the words. Word recall was the _____ variable in this study.
A)control
B)independent
C)experimental
D)dependent

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The word recall is the dependent variable in this study as it is the outcome or the response that is being measured in response to the manipulation of the independent variable, which is the organization of the words.

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