A psychologist is looking at mom’s age in comparison to parenting styles. She polled 150 moms and separated them in to 2 categories young and old. Then she rated their parenting style. 76 were in the category of permissive, 49 were authoritative, and 25 were autocratic. Was there an effect in parenting styles in the moms from Boring Oregon? (Yes that’s a real city in Oregon HEHEHE)
What is the IV?
Group of answer choices
Autocratic
Parenting Styles
Boring Oregon
Mom's age
The independent variable (IV) is the characteristic of a psychology experiment that is not manipulated or changed by other variables in the experiment.
===> ANSWER: Mom's age
A psychologist is looking at mom’s age in comparison to parenting styles. She polled 150 moms...