A Researcher Who Is Conducting Observations to Test Her Own

question 13

Multiple Choice

A researcher who is conducting observations to test her own hypothesis may see or pay more attention to behavior that tends to support that hypothesis, so she must guard against

• A) premature interpretation.
• B) causal references.
• C) observer bias.
• D) sampling bias.

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