Experimenter Expectancy Effects Are

question 56

Multiple Choice

Experimenter expectancy effects are:

• A) instances when participants improve because of their expectations rather than the actual treatments they receive.
• B) the subtle and unintentional cues that participants pick up about the hypotheses of an experiment.
• C) instances when experimenters mistakenly use random selection instead of random assignment.
• D) the subtle and unintentional ways that experimenters can influence their participants to respond in ways consistent with their hypotheses.

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