Revisit Professor Michaels’s efforts to research the link, if any, between study conditions and academic performance. His experiments used two study conditions—group and individual. Study conditions involve a lot more than whether a student is studying alone or with others, though. What other factors might be part of a study condition? Availability of coffee and snacks? Internet access? Identify at least five factors that you would see as part of study conditions and design an experiment or experiments that show how you would test for the influence of at least one of these factors on academic performance.

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