Question

To ensure that all your participants have an equal opportunity to be in the treatment group, you decide to toss a coin to determine who gets placed in the treatment and control groups. You have engaged in________ a. Random assignment b. A control group c. Double-blind experiment group d. None of the above

Answer 1

Answer:

a. Random assignment      

Explanation:

Random assignment: The term random assignment is defined as the implementation of chance procedures in various psychological experiments to make sure that every single participant or subject in the experiment gets equal opportunity of getting assigned to any of the group used in the experiment, for example, the experimental group.

Example: In any psychological experiment, all the subjects get the equal opportunity of getting assigned in either the experimental group or the control group.

In the question above, the given statement refers to the random assignment.