Which of these had to be a control in this study?

(a) whether the learning was alone or in front of an audience
(b) the number of trials it took for the subjects to learn
(c) the list of nonsense syllables was the same for the two groups
(d) the difficulty of the list of nonsense syllables
(e) none of the above


C

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