Jeri Was Completing a Scale Assessing Her Degree of Anxiety

Multiple Choice

Jeri was completing a scale assessing her degree of anxiety regarding the upcoming presidential election. She simply selected the "neutral" option for all of her responses because it seemed less extreme. This bias is referred to as the:

A) acquiescent response bias.
B) error of central tendency.
C) social desirability bias.
D) predictive bias.