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Bernice conducts a study on the effects of violent television on children. She obtains a sample of 30 aggressive children and 30 non-aggressive children. She has the aggressive children watch 15 minutes of aggressive television and the non-aggressive children watch 15 minutes of non-aggressive television. This study represents a _________ study.

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Answer: Confounded

Explanation: A confounded study simply means an experiment or study in which a confounding or lurking variable has been introduced which will impact or cause a distortion between both the dependent and independent variable resulting in a spurious relationship.

In the scenario above, aggressive children were subjected to aggressive movies and non-aggressive children were subjected to non-aggressive movies. A lurking or confounding variable has been introduced such that a correlation or causal relationship cannot be correctly established.

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