A Researcher Interested in Aggression Told Participants His Experiment Investigated

question 32

Multiple Choice

A researcher interested in aggression told participants his experiment investigated whether paying attention to details would affect how things taste.One group of participants wrote down details from a 5-minute violent gun scene.The second group of participants wrote details while watching a high-speed car chase.Afterward,participants tasted and rated a sample of water with a drop of hot sauce in it as a measure of "taste sensitivity." They were then asked to prepare a sample of water for the next participant,and could put in as much hot sauce as they wanted.There was no "next participant;" the amount of hot sauce was a measure of aggression.The researcher predicted participants who watched the violent gun scene would add more hot sauce.The ethical issue most relevant to this experiment is

• A) asking participants to write details about movie scenes.
• B) deception.
• C) using hot sauce as a measure of aggression.
• D) cross-cultural bias.

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