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Extraneous Variable
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Demand Characteristics
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Experimenter / Investigator Effects
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Participant / Person Variable
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Situational Variables
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A variable that does not vary
systematically
with the
independent
variable but may have an effect on the
dependent
variable.
They make it difficult to detect
cause
and
effect
( i.e. that it was your independent variable that caused your dependent variable and not anything else )
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