In an Effort to Prevent Participants in an Experiment from Trying

question 253

Multiple Choice

In an effort to prevent participants in an experiment from trying to confirm the researchers' predictions,psychologists sometimes

• A)obtain written promises from participants to respond honestly.
• B)treat information about individual participants confidentially.
• C)deceive participants about the true purpose of an experiment.
• D)allow people to decide for themselves whether they want to participate in an experiment.

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Definitions:

Semantically

Pertaining to meaning in language or logic, focusing on the relationship between signifiers and what they stand for.

Structurally

Relating to, or forming the fundamental structure of something.

Phonemically

Relating to phonemes, the minimal sound elements in a language that serve to differentiate words from one another.

Phonemic Encoding

It's a process in cognitive psychology where sounds of language are converted into mental representations of those sounds to be stored and recalled from memory.