The individual differences between participants, such as age, gender, height, strength, intelligence, etc., are known as ________.
A) demand characteristics
B) participant variables
C) exaggerated variables
D) artifacts

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Participant variables refer to the individual differences between participants such as age, gender, height, strength, intelligence, etc. This is in contrast to demand characteristics, which refer to cues in the experiment that may lead participants to behave in a certain way, exaggerated variables, which do not exist in reality but are manipulated in the study, and artifacts, which are unexpected outcomes that may occur in the research design or analysis.

The Individual Differences Between Participants, Such as Age, Gender, Height