When a Participant's Expectation About What Effect an Experimental Manipulation

question 19

Multiple Choice

When a participant's expectation about what effect an experimental manipulation is supposed to have influences the dependent measure independently of the actual effect of the manipulation, the change in the dependent measure is called

• A) a placebo effect.
• B) an experimenter bias.
• C) a confound.
• D) a demand characteristic.

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