Which of the Following Is an Example of Demand Characteristics

question 3

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of demand characteristics affecting an experiment?

• A)An experimenter draws the wrong conclusions from a study because she did not use the correct statistical analysis.
• B)A participant changes his response to a question because he has the feeling he knows what the experimenter wants.
• C)An experimenter changes her behaviour because she can predict how the participant will respond.
• D)A participant in a double-blind experiment believes she is in the control group.

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Definitions:

Behavioral Genetics

Quantitative study of relative hereditary and environmental influences on behavior.

Human Development

A multidisciplinary study of how people change and grow over the course of their lives, encompassing physical, cognitive, and socioemotional aspects.

Environment

Encompasses all the external physical and social conditions and influences affecting the life and development of an organism or population.

Heredity

The biological process through which genetic characteristics are transmitted from one generation to the next.