When Subjects Are Selected Because of the Presence or Absence

question 33

Multiple Choice

When subjects are selected because of the presence or absence of a condition, rather than having a condition assigned to them, the experimenter is testing

• A) subject variables
• B) construct validity
• C) face validity
• D) confounding variables

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