Addie Is Wondering Whether the Memory Scores of Her Participants

question 127

Multiple Choice

Addie is wondering whether the memory scores of her participants may have reflected not the difference in retention interval between the experimental and control conditions in her experiment but rather a difference in participants' ages between the two conditions. Addie's question concerns the ______ hypothesis.

• A) confound
• B) research
• C) null
• D) inferential

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Definitions:

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