Addie is wondering whether the memory scores of her participants may have reflected not the difference in retention interval between the experimental and control conditions in her experiment but rather a difference in participants’ ages between the two conditions. Addie’s question concerns the ______ hypothesis.

a. confound
b. research
c. null
d. inferential


Ans: A

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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