When people think others are going to judge their behaviors, those people begin to experience
a. placebo effects.
b. causal ambiguity.
c. internal validation.
d. evaluation apprehension.
When psychologists Orne and Scheibe gave research participants a panic button in the event that they began to experience negative psychological effects while sitting in a room, the participants showed panic responses.
When there was no mention of a panic button, the participants experienced no negative effects. Orne and Scheibe were documenting the existence of
a. experimenter bias.
b. mundane realism.
c. demand characteristics.
d. evaluation apprehension.
The tendency for a participant to act differently than normal after picking up clues from a researcher about how to respond
a. is called a single blind approach.
b. is known as demand characteristics.
c. is corrected by a single blind approach, but not by a double blind approach.
d. evaluation apprehension.
The fact that participants try to live up to an experimenter's expectations means that they change their behaviors to conform to what they perceive as appropriate. This tendency is referred to as
a. demand characteristics.
b. a single blind.
c. causal ambiguity.
d. mundane realism.
The fact that scientists want to be identified as the first person to document some phenomenon illustrates the point that
a. after an initial discovery, few researchers pursue the same line of study.
b. researchers who are seen as replicating a previous finding doesn't get very much credit for their work.
c. the person who makes the first discovery gets to be the research team leader.
d. after an initial discovery, there are few major points to be documented.
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