Fourteen medical students in their last year of training are asked to make diagnostic decisions under three conditions: alone, with two senior doctors present and in a simulation of a chaotic emergency department. Twelve first year medical students are also asked to complete the same task conditions.
-10) In the research described above, the researcher is particularly interested in the difference in diagnostic decision scores between experienced and first year medical students in the simulation condition. A difference here would be an example of a:

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A simple effect refers to the effect of one independent variable at a particular level of another independent variable. In this case, the researcher is interested in the difference in scores between experienced and first-year medical students specifically in the simulation condition, which is an example of examining the effect of experience level (independent variable) at a specific condition (level of another independent variable, the simulation condition).

Fourteen Medical Students in Their Last Year of Training Are