Dr. Tuten randomly assigned students of abnormal psychology to participate in a study of memory encoding specificity. This means that:
A. each student was hand-picked.
B. all the students participated in the study to eliminate biased selection.
C. the sample was not truly representative of the identified population.
D. each student had an equal chance of being selected.
Answer: D
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