Question

Josie is conducting a study on whether sleep deprivation increases stress levels. she will be observing and measuring levels of stress based on whether the subjects were assigned to the deprived or nondeprived sleep conditions. in this experiment, the stress level is the _____ variable.

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: dependent

Dependent variable refers to the variables that would be influenced by the presence of other independent variables. Dependent variables represent the event or phenomenon which intended to be analyzed further by the researchers.