Question

"There will be differences in degree of mood elevation seen in depressed clients after receiving either cognitive-behavioral or psychoanalytic therapy." During a test of this hypothesis, it was discovered that some of the participants lived with family members and others lived alone. This variable, living situation, is a/an ________.

Answer 1

Confounding variable

Step-by-step explanation:

Confounding variable refers to the type of variable that can disrupt the validity of the experiment by giving a certain effect to the variable.

The experiment above was designed to measure mood elevation among the subjects, but the living situation among the subjects are really different among one another and cannot be controlled by the researchers.