You're Conducting a Study to Determine Whether Children Can Learn

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Multiple Choice

You're conducting a study to determine whether children can learn to use a new type of educational software on a touch-screen tablet computer.You try the software in a group of ten-year-olds and a group of eight-year-olds and are surprised to find that the younger children perform better with the new software.You then find out that the younger group had been exposed to touch-screen tablets in the first grade,but the technology wasn't available when the older group had been in first grade.Which of the following effects has had an impact on your research results

• A) cohort effect
• B) placebo effect 
• C) inhibition
• D) bias

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