Which of These Is NOT a Reason Why Deception Is

question 109

Multiple Choice

Which of these is NOT a reason why deception is commonly used in social psychological experiments?

• A)to determine if participants can "guess" how they are being deceived
• B)to reduce the potential influence of demand characteristics
• C)to create the conditions necessary to test a hypothesis
• D)to create an artificial situation that is psychologically involving and convincing for the participants

Understand the concepts of explanatory and response variables in different contexts.

Comprehend the relationship between variables, including direction, form, and strength of association.

Apply knowledge of scatterplots to describe relations between quantitative variables.

Interpret linear and nonlinear associations between variables.

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