Suppose That You Are Working as a Research Assistant for a Social

question 190

Multiple Choice

Suppose that you are working as a research assistant for a social psychologist. To assist her with a research study, the social psychologist asks you to stand in a laboratory waiting room with research participants, act as though you are a research participant yourself, and then pretend to have an epileptic seizure. (The social psychologist is interested in how many people will try to help you.) In other words, your task is to be a ____ in the research.

• A) confederate
• B) mundane realist
• C) reactant
• D) dependent variable

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