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When the Experimenter's Comments Influence the Subjects' Behavior So That

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When the experimenter's comments influence the subjects' behavior so that they give answers that they think the experimenter wants to hear rather than their true feelings,we say that ____________________ has occurred.


Definitions:

Groupthink

A psychological phenomenon occurring within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.

Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus, a German psychologist known for his pioneering work on memory and the forgetting curve.

Nonsense Syllables

Meaningless sets of two or three letters that are used in memory and learning experiments to study the learning process.

Memory

The mental ability that allows for the keeping, maintaining, and recovering of information throughout time.

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