Reaction Time Tends to Increase Through Middle Childhood and Adolescence

question 22

True/False

Reaction time tends to increase through middle childhood and adolescence.

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Definitions:

Expectancy Effects

Phenomena in which the outcome of a study is influenced by the participants' or experimenters' expectations.

Demand Characteristics

Cues that inform the subject how he or she is expected to behave.

Unobtrusive Measures

Research methods that do not require direct interaction with participants, minimizing the potential for the researcher's presence to influence the results.

Demand Characteristics

Cues in an experiment that suggest to participants what the experimenter expects to find or how participants are expected to behave.