One Reason It Is Difficult to Conduct Long-Term Studies of the Same

question 34

Multiple Choice

One reason it is difficult to conduct long-term studies of the same group of participants is that physical and psychological changes in the participants over time can become confounded with the independent variables) of the experiment. Researchers refer to this as the problem of

• A) maturation.
• B) education.
• C) regression artifact.
• D) statistical progression.

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