Which Statement Is Not True About Laboratory Experiments

question 91

Multiple Choice

Which statement is not true about laboratory experiments?

• A) The artificiality of the environment may cause reactive error,in that the respondents react to the situation itself,rather than to the independent variable.
• B) Laboratory experiments are likely to have higher external validity than field experiments.
• C) The laboratory environment offers a high degree of control because it isolates the experiment in a carefully monitored environment.
• D) Laboratory experiments allow for more complex designs than field experiments.

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Definitions:

Placebo

A substance with no therapeutic effect, often used as a control in testing new drugs.

Fake Treatment

A placebo or sham treatment given to participants in research, which has no therapeutic effect.

Demand Characteristic

Cues in an experimental environment that communicate to participants how they are expected to behave.

Control Group

A control group in scientific experiments is the group of subjects that does not receive the treatment or experimental condition and is used as a benchmark to measure the effects of the treatment.