Regarding Diversity in Psychological Research, Which of the Following Statements

question 394

Multiple Choice

Regarding diversity in psychological research, which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A)The vast majority of human participants in psychology experiments are recruited from introductory psychology courses.
• B)Most of the participants in psychological research have been Caucasian members of the middle class with most of the researchers themselves being Caucasian males.
• C)If a study has a disproportionate number of Caucasian participants in comparison to other ethnic groups, the results of the study should be considered completely invalidated.
• D)Over the years, there has been a strongly ingrained tendency to assume that what Western researchers discover studying Western research participants is the norm in human behavior.

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