What is a confederate?
A) an accomplice of the experimenter
B) participants who have not given assent
C) participants in other studies
D) participants who do not know the purpose of a study

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A confederate is an individual who is secretly working with the experimenter but is presented as a participant to the other subjects. This is often used in psychological experiments to manipulate social interactions without the real participants' knowledge.

What Is a Confederate