Participants in a memory experiment are asked to learn a list of high-imagery words and then to learn a list of low-imagery words. Using the same participants in each condition could cause it to be confounded by
A) the use of different words types.
B) carryover and/or order effects.
C) demand characteristic.
D) experimenter bias.

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Carryover and/or order effects could confound the results because the experience of learning high-imagery words first might affect how participants learn and remember the low-imagery words, or vice versa. This is due to the influence of the first task on performance in the second task, rather than the inherent difference in word types.

Participants in a Memory Experiment Are Asked to Learn a List