To Avoid Demand Characteristics, Participants May Be Given Tests, Often

question 104

Multiple Choice

To avoid demand characteristics, participants may be given tests, often called ________, that have nothing to do with the purpose of the study in order to obscure the real purpose of the study.

• A)fabrications
• B)double-blind stories
• C)filler measures
• D)analogues

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Definitions:

Visual Scanning Behavior

The pattern and manner in which individuals visually survey or scan an environment or visual input, often studied in psychology and human-computer interaction.

Eye-Movement Rates

The speed and pattern of eye movements, often studied in psychology and behavioral research to understand reading habits, attention, and information processing.

Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test

A non-parametric test for assessing whether two independent samples come from the same distribution.

Expected Cell Counts

In chi-squared tests, these refer to the theoretically predicted frequencies of observations in the categories of a contingency table under the null hypothesis.