QUESTION 5 If a cognitive psychologist is studying whether difficulty completing a task predicts the amount of activity in a certain brain area, task difficulty is the ______ variable, and brain activity is the ______ variable. - predictor; criterion - Y; X - criterion; predictor - dependent; independent
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