Demand Characteristics Are a Threat to Internal Validity in Which

question 11

True/False

Demand characteristics are a threat to internal validity in which researchers purposely influence results in desired directions.

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Definitions:

Unresolved Childhood Conflicts

Unaddressed and persistent psychological struggles stemming from childhood experiences, often affecting adult behavior and mental health.

Fixation

An obsessive interest or feeling towards a person or idea, or in psychoanalytic theory, a failure to progress beyond a developmental stage.

Oedipus Complex

A psychoanalytic concept that describes a child's feelings of desire for the opposite-sex parent and jealousy and rivalry with the same-sex parent.

Psychosexual Stage

Stages in Freudian psychoanalysis that map out the development of personality and sexual orientation from childhood through adulthood.