Dr. Tuten randomly assigned his abnormal psychology students to participate in a study of memory encoding specificity. This means that:

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Random assignment means that each participant has an equal chance of being assigned to a condition or group. It helps minimize the effects of extraneous variables and increase the generalizability of the findings to the population. Therefore, option C is the correct choice. Option A is incorrect because hand-picking participants would introduce bias. Option B is incorrect because it assumes that the sample is not representative without any information about the population or sampling method. Option D is incorrect because eliminating biased selection does not guarantee randomization.

Dr Tuten Randomly Assigned His Abnormal Psychology Students to Participate