A Study in Which Participants Are Fully Informed About the Nature

question 16

Multiple Choice

A study in which participants are fully informed about the nature of the research and asked to behave "as if" they were in a social setting of interest is known as a(n)

• A) acting experiment.
• B) simulation study.
• C) simulated realism experiment.
• D) deceptive study.

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Definitions:

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