Multiple Choice
The term demand characteristics refers to
A) a situation in which the process of measuring a variable influences a person's score on the variable.
B) information present in the research situation that allows participants to form their own hypotheses.
C) the process by which experimenters' expectancies about how participants should perform could affect the way participants actually perform.
D) aspects of an experiment that make it interesting so that the participants are distracted from any anxiety they might be experiencing.
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