Random Assignment of Participants to Treatment and Control Groups

question 72

Multiple Choice

Random assignment of participants to treatment and control groups

• A) accomplishes control of many potential extraneous variables.
• B) is rarely used by I/O psychologists.
• C) is very difficult to accomplish and time-consuming.
• D) is only used in correlational research designs.

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