Participants in a Memory Experiment Are Asked to Learn a List

question 41

Multiple Choice

Participants in a memory experiment are asked to learn a list of high-imagery words and then to learn a list of low-imagery words. Using the same participants in each condition could cause it to be confounded by

• A) the use of different words types.
• B) carryover and/or order effects.
• C) demand characteristic.
• D) experimenter bias.

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