Your text states that in early psychological research comparing monolingual and bilingual children, the bilingual children were often of lower socioeconomic status than were their monolingual counterparts. In such research, the children's socioeconomic status was a(n) _______ variable.
A)predictor
B)confounding
C)control
D)outcome

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The socioeconomic status in this context is a confounding variable because it is an external variable that could influence the results of the study (i.e., the comparison between monolingual and bilingual children) in an unintended way, making it difficult to isolate the effect of being bilingual.

Your Text States That in Early Psychological Research Comparing Monolingual