Ensuring Experimental Control Is Often More Difficult in Research on Thinking

question 6

Multiple Choice

Ensuring experimental control is often more difficult in research on thinking and problem solving because

• A) between-subjects designs are often used.
• B) experiments in this area are often more complicated than experiments in other areas of psychology.
• C) there are many extraneous variables that might influence performance.
• D) all of these.

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