Making Sure That Researchers Come from Different Backgrounds Is a Way

question 48

Multiple Choice

Making sure that researchers come from different backgrounds is a way to help advance _____ in social psychology.

• A) cooperation
• B) empathy
• C) diversity
• D) creativity

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Definitions:

Demand Characteristics

Cues in an experiment that suggest to participants what behavior is expected, potentially influencing the outcomes of that experiment.

Falsifiable

A principle that a hypothesis or theory must be capable of being proven false in order to be considered scientific.

Testable Predictions

Hypotheses or statements that can be verified or falsified through experimentation or observation.

Principle of Parsimony

A principle suggesting that one should not make more assumptions than the minimum needed to explain something.