Consuela wants to run an experiment testing the effects of time of day on cognitive ability. Consuela is the experimenter for all the participants randomly assigned to the morning condition,
and her research assistant Rick is the experimenter for the evening condition. What is the confound in this study?
A) cognitive ability
B) time of day
C) gender of the experimenter
D) random assignment of participants
Question 2
At a research meeting, you hear a graduate student report findings that racism no longer exists, since in his survey he found that no one admitted to being a racist.
What would you suggest to this graduate student as a good course of action?
A) Confirm his findings in a second sample.
B) Publish his findings immediately.
C) Use a different self-report measure of racism to corroborate his findings.
D) Get a covert measure to corroborate his findings.
These examples of stimuli were used in the experiment by Vinckier et al. (2007). Mouton is the Frenc
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