Professor Matthews is carrying out a within-subjects experiment where she is administering to her participants a list of words to memorize and, in the second condition, after a 10mg dose of caffeine, she administers the same list of words to memorize

She is worried that the sequence of the words on the list might interfere with her ability to interpret whether or not caffeine affects one's ability to memorize. Based on this description, it appears that Professor Matthews is concerned about a potential __________ in her research design.

a. order effect
b. independent variable
c. interrupted time-series
d. placebo effect


a

Psychology

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What will be an ideal response?

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