One of the advantages of conducting a study in the laboratory is that
a. participants are often used to engaging in laboratory research.
b. researchers can conduct studies on more complex topics in a laboratory.
c. investigators can exert more control over the experimental setting.
d. laboratory research can be made to be more realistic than nonlaboratory research.
c
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