A Researcher Conducts an Experiment in Which She Wants to Look

question 11

Multiple Choice

A researcher conducts an experiment in which she wants to look at the effects of class size on learning.To do this she randomly allocates people to two conditions: in Condition 1 people learn information in a small classroom with 4 other people, in Condition 2 people learn information in a large classroom with another 29 people.Which of the following is a potential confound, threatening the internal validity of the study?

• A)The reliability of the test used to assess learning.
• B)The size of the classroom in which the people learn.
• C)The susceptibility of participants' in Condition 1 agoraphobia.
• D)The susceptibility of participants' in Condition 2 agoraphobia.
• E)The age of people in the two conditions.

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