In a study reported in your text (Feng, Spence, & Pratt, 2007), male and female participants played a video game for 10 hours. The researchers measured participants' spatial skills before and after the game. The spatial skills measure is the __________ variable; it should appear on the _____-axis in a graph of the study's results.
A) independent; x
B) independent; y
C) dependent; x
D) dependent; y

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The spatial skills measure is the dependent variable because it is the outcome that the researchers are interested in observing how it changes in response to the intervention (playing the video game). In graphing results, the dependent variable is typically placed on the y-axis.

In a Study Reported in Your Text (Feng, Spence