Which of the following best describes a quasi-experiment?
A) Students at your university are randomly assigned to different conditions.
B) To investigate worker's perceptions of safety, you distribute a survey to all workers in the company.
C) You will expose individuals to different room colors and expect differences in responses based on whether they live in the north or south.
D) You will manipulate the layout complexity of a path and randomly assign individuals to the levels.

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A quasi-experiment involves the manipulation of an independent variable without the random assignment of participants to conditions or orders of conditions. In choice C, individuals are exposed to different room colors, and the expectation of differences in responses is based on a pre-existing condition (whether they live in the north or south), which indicates a lack of random assignment to conditions, characteristic of a quasi-experimental design.

Which of the Following Best Describes a Quasi-Experiment