Participants in a Within-Subjects Experiment Are Performing an Odor Identification

question 16

Multiple Choice

Participants in a within-subjects experiment are performing an odor identification task in which the smell of vinegar is presented at a particularly high concentration. The smell that follows the presentation of the vinegar is always poorly identified, regardless of which odorant it is. What should be a concern for this experimental design?

• A) Order effects
• B) Sequence Effects
• C) Random allocation to groups
• D) Mortality

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Definitions:

Sharecroppers

Farmers who rent land and pay the landowner with a percentage of the crops produced on the land, a system prevalent in the post-Civil War Southern United States.

Domestic Servants

Workers employed in households to perform various housekeeping duties, such as cleaning, cooking, and caregiving.

Sharecropping

A system of agriculture where a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land.

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A term referring to citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa.