An Experimenter Flips a Coin for Each Participant and Assigns

question 57

Multiple Choice

An experimenter flips a coin for each participant and assigns the participant to one group when "heads" came up and to the other group when "tails" came up.This process is referred to as:

• A)operationalization.
• B)random assignment to condition.
• C)purposive sampling.
• D)correlation.

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Definitions:

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