Courtney Conducts a Study in Which She Randomly Assigns Some

question 71

Multiple Choice

Courtney conducts a study in which she randomly assigns some rats to receive a high dose of alcohol, other rats to receive a low dose of alcohol, and a final group receives no alcohol. She measures the time it takes them to learn a new maze. Courtney's study represents a(n) __________ and her statistical technique for analyzing the data should be a ___________.

• A) ex post facto design; repeated-measures ANOVA
• B) ex post facto design; completely randomized ANOVA
• C) true experiment; completely randomized ANOVA
• D) true experiment; repeated-measures ANOVA

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