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In a cross-sectional study designed to assess the effects of age on reaction time, you have adults belonging to different age groups respond to visual stimuli on a computer screen. A colleague suggests that the results of your study might be confounded by the fact that older participants may have less experience using a computer than do younger participants. This potential source of error is best described as a:

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  1. Rosenthal effect.
  2. Hawthorne effect.
  3. carryover effect.
  4. cohort effect.

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professional_psychology

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