A study interested in gender differences in how men and women experience a treatment vs. a control would be an example of a __________. If the treatment instead was a scale assessing emotional intelligence, the study would be an example of a ____________.
A) Mixed Factorial design, nonexperimental design
B) Correlational design, factorial design
C) Blocked design, mixed factorial design
D) Nonexperimental design, correlational design
E) None of the above

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A mixed factorial design involves manipulating at least two independent variables, while a nonexperimental design does not involve manipulating any variables. In the first scenario, the gender of the participants and the treatment vs. control conditions are the independent variables being manipulated, making it a mixed factorial design. In the second scenario, there is only one independent variable being used (emotional intelligence scale), so it would not be a mixed factorial design.

A Study Interested in Gender Differences in How Men and Women