within-subjects design

British

noun

(modifier) statistics (of an experiment) concerned with measuring the value of the dependent variable for the same subjects under the various experimental conditions Compare between-subjects design matched-pairs design

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Using fMRI is only practical with small numbers of volunteers, so she looks at how the same people respond when they have been primed and when they haven’t: a ‘within-subjects’ design, in contrast to the ‘between-subjects’ design of priming studies that use a control group.

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