Consuela Wants to Run an Experiment Testing the Effects of Time

question 37

Multiple Choice

Consuela wants to run an experiment testing the effects of time of day on cognitive ability.Consuela is the experimenter for all the participants randomly assigned to the "morning" condition,and her research assistant Rick is the experimenter for the "evening" condition.What is the confound in this study?

• A) cognitive ability
• B) time of day
• C) gender of the experimenter
• D) random assignment of participants

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