When You Cannot Randomly Assign Participants to Groups but You

question 172

Multiple Choice

When you cannot randomly assign participants to groups but you do manipulate an IV and measure a DV, you have used a(n) _________ design.

• A) ex post facto
• B) quasi-experimental
• C) true experimental
• D) Solomon four-group

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