Identify and Briefly Describe the Four Categories of the COMA

question 56

Essay

Identify and briefly describe the four categories of the COMA training evaluation model.

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Definitions:

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.

Demand Characteristic

Features of an experimental setting that cause participants to guess the purpose of the study and change their behavior.

Experimenter Expectancy

The phenomenon where the biases and expectations of the experimenter unconsciously influence the participants of an experiment.