Sometimes It Is Impossible to "Inform" the Participant Fully at the Beginning

question 54

Multiple Choice

Sometimes it is impossible to "inform" the participant fully at the beginning of an experiment because

• A) participants really don't want information
• B) disclosing all information about the experiment might influence participants' behavior and invalidate the experiment.
• C) participants cannot always guarantee their ability to come to all sessions of an experiment.
• D) the research design being used is too sophisticated for participants to understand.

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Definitions:

Negation

A logical operation that reverses the truth value of a proposition.

Disjunction

A logical operation expressing the condition of having at least one of two statements be true; represented by "or."

Disjunctions

Logical operations that result in truth if at least one of the operands is true.

Conditionals

Statements that express a hypothesis and its conclusion, commonly structured in "if...then..." format.