Question

does early childhood reduce tantrums? A recent headline reads "early language skills reduce preschool tantrums. It offers a potential explantion "verbalizing their frustrations may help little ones cope. The article refers to a study that recorded the language skill level and the number of tantrums of a sample of preschoolers. Give a potential confounding variable and explain how it associates with the explanatory and response variables

Answer 1

Confounding variables are factors other than the independent variable that may cause a result.

Examples in this case are spanking,child physical maltreatment etc.

An explanatory variable is a type of independent variable.When a variable is independent, it is not affected at all by any other variables. When a variable isn't independent for certain, it's an explanatory variable.

Other factors are psychological maltreatment, maternal stress, intimate partner aggression and depression.