Dr. Gates looked at the effects of frustration on the use of profanity by males and females. Males and females were asked to write a lab report on computers in a lab, but half the computers were set up to crash during the session while half of the computers were not set up to crash. Three observers recorded the use of profanity by the participants during the task. What is the design of this study?

Group of answer choices

a)2 x 2 factorial

b)2 x 2 x 3 factorial

c)1 x 2 factorial

D)2 x 2 correlational