Dr. Harrison writes down the names of her subjects on slips of paper and puts them in a box. She shuffles them and begins to draw names one at a time. She assigns every other subject to the experimental group of her experiment. This is an example of:
A. randomly assigning subjects to the conditions of the experiment.
B. systematically assigning subjects to the conditions of the experiment.
C. holding extraneous variables constant across the levels of the independent variable.
D. None of the answers is correct.
Answer: A
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