This document discusses two types of experimental confounds - procedural and operational. A procedural confound occurs when more than one variable is manipulated, as in an example where both the age and gender of an accident victim were varied. An operational confound occurs when more than one construct is manipulated, as in an example where clothing choice varied both amount of body exposure and fashionability. In both examples, the confounds make it difficult to determine whether the observed effects were truly due to the variable of interest.