Sixty participants were recruited via an online participant portal and then randomly allocated into two groups. In the first condition, participants read a short academic article in a completely silent room before completing a comprehension test. In the second condition, the procedure was identical, but participants read the article while a recording of busy café background noise was played.
Explain how the researcher could have randomly allocated the 60 participants to the two experimental conditions.
201 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Planning and conducting research. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.