Which of the following describes a cohort effect?
A. when a researcher finds that people differ on some psychological variable depending not on the era in which they were born and lived per se, but on their chronological age.
B. when a research finds that people differ on some psychological variable depending not on their age per se, but in the era in which they were born and lived.
C. when a researcher tracks a group of people of different ages over the same period of time.
D. when a researcher compares two groups of people born in the same year to distinguish psychological variables between them.
Answer: B
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