An Experimenter Sets Up a Situation to Observe People's Behaviour

question 53

Multiple Choice

An experimenter sets up a situation to observe people's behaviour when they are subjected to certain variables that she is testing.However,she begins to suspect that her presence alone is changing the behaviour of the subjects.What is this phenomenon called?

• A) self-monitoring
• B) Hawthorne effect
• C) self-consciousness
• D) experiment anxiety

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