Students Conducted a Naturalistic Observation to Study Whether People Arriving

question 16

Multiple Choice

Students conducted a naturalistic observation to study whether people arriving at the library alone would be more likely to hold the door open for a person coming in immediately after them than would people who arrived in pairs.The students made their observations looking through the window of a classroom building across from the library.They chose this observation sight to avoid the potential problem of

• A)demand characteristics.
• B)observer bias.
• C)reactivity.
• D)unrepresentative sampling.

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Definitions:

Failure

The lack of success in achieving a goal or performing up to a standard; the opposite of success.

Change Agent

An individual or group that actively facilitates, promotes, and manages change within an organization to achieve desired goals.

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Inertia

The tendency to remain unchanged or to do nothing when action is necessary, often within organizational change contexts.