In their experiment, why did Bibb Latané and John Darley (1968) expose all participants to the same audiotaped seizure? They wanted
a. the independent variable to be the same for all participants.
b. the independent variable—the overheard seizure—to be different for different participants.
c. to be able to assign participants at random.
d. to control extraneous variables, such as the quality of the fake seizure.
Answer: D
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