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ID: past-exam-of-the-experimental-design-and-methods-course-of-the-year-2-of-the-psychology-experimental-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2022/1/b/solution

The two independent variables are social-cue congruence, with congruent and incongruent levels, and cue-to-response delay, with short ( ms) and long ( ms) levels. The response variable is reproduction reaction time, measured in seconds. Thus the known treatment structure is a factorial design, potentially estimating two main effects and their interaction.
TODO: identify the allocation from the missing supplementary sheet or protocol. The eighty recruited participants do not establish whether either factor is within-subjects or between-subjects, whether all observations were retained, or how trials were summarized. The design cannot responsibly be called fully repeated-measures, fully independent-groups or mixed without that information.

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