Consider an experiment in which participants watch various types of TV programs and are then observed while playing a physical game to determine the number of aggressive acts they emit. In this example, the independent variable would be the

a. game played by the participants.
b. gender of the participants.
c. type of TV programs watched.
d. number of aggressive acts observed.

In an experiment, the independent variable is one that influences the search result through another variable, which is called the dependent variable. The dependent variable, in turn, is the one that is influenced by the independent variable to demonstrate the search result. Regarding the research cited above, we can see that the number of aggressive acts that the survey participants may have depends on the type of TV show they are watching. In this case, the aggressive acts are the dependent variable, while the type of watched TV programs are the independent variable.