Dr. Segal is studying the effects of television watching on the language development of children under the age of 2. Because of room scheduling issues, the children in the experimental group underwent testing in the morning and the children in the control group underwent testing in the afternoon. This is an example of a. a situational confounding factor. b. a confounding factor due to individual differences. c. random assignment. d. randomization error.

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Answer: A situational confounding factor

Explanation: Confounding factors are casual factors that affects Dependent and independent variables or factors by creating spurious (apparent/partial) relationship between the variables or factors.

Situational Confounding factors are factors sorrounding the treatments or variables which affects the outcome. The resheduling of the children bases room issues is A SITUATIONAL CONFOUNDING FACTOR.