Participants in a Study on How Age Affects Reaction Time

question 144

Multiple Choice

Participants in a study on how age affects reaction time were asked to press a button every time they heard a buzzer. A person standing at a podium in front of them triggered the buzzer by flipping a hidden switch. During the experiment the switch operator began to flinch slightly before the buzzer sounded. The results of this study would be confounded due to ___________

• A) inferential bias.
• B) experimenter bias.
• C) selection bias.
• D) control bias.

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