Professor Yu designs a study testing whether color can account for gender differences in spatial ability. He uses pastel-colored stimuli for the female participants and primary-colored stimuli for the male participants. In this study, stimulus color is a(n)
A) treatment confound
B) measurement confound
C) natural confound
D) artifact

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The way that stimulus color is used in this study may confound the treatment (i.e. the effect being studied: whether color affects gender differences in spatial ability) as it is also manipulating another variable (i.e. color preference or familiarity with different types of colors). Therefore, it would be considered a treatment confound.

Professor Yu Designs a Study Testing Whether Color Can Account