Stella is interested in the effect of presentation modality on learning. She has participants study 60 pairs of words: 20 are presented visually, 20 auditorily, and 20 visually and auditorily. Participants return two days later and take a cued recall test. What statistical test should Stella use to analyze her data?
a. One-way, repeated-measures ANOVA
b. Independent-samples t-test
c. Paired-samples t-test
d. One-way, between-groups ANOVA
Ans: A
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