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Matching Quiz II
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Use one of these terms to fill in the blank in the following sentences:

1


When the independent variable of interest and a different, potential independent variable are allowed to covary, a _______________ is present in the experiment.
2


The most common technique used to form comparable groups in an independent groups design is _______________.
3


The potential bias that occurs when researchers’ expectations influence how they treat participants in the different conditions of the experiment is known as ___________.
4


Repeating the procedures used in a particular experiment to determine whether the same results are obtained a second time with different participants is known as _______________ .
5


When the outcome of an experiment indicates that the difference between the means we observed in our experiment is larger than would be expected by chance if the null hypothesis were true, we say that the outcome is ______________.
Answer choices for questions 1 through 5
A)statistically significant
B)experimenter effects
C)confounding
D)random assignment
E)replication





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