When Research Participants Have an Equally Likely Chance of Being

question 84

Multiple Choice

When research participants have an equally likely chance of being assigned to an experimental condition or the control condition, the experimenter has:

• A)manipulated the independent variable.
• B)demonstrated external validity.
• C)employed random assignment.
• D)set up a quasi-experiment.

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