Confederate refers to an accomplice of the experimenter who pretends to be a regular participant in an experiment . Moreover, a Confederate is a person who pretends to be a participant in a research study but is actually working for the researcher to create a false environment; at times a research assistant pretending to be another participant in a study.
Confederate means accomplice; complice; accessory, accessory after the fact.
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