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Charlie · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

If you simply tell a group of participants about an experiment, give them the instructions, show them the apparatus, and then ask them to describe how they think they would perform, you would call this group

A) a non-experiment control group.
B) the experimental group.
C) a double-blind group.
D) a deception control group.

Question 2

Participants in an experiment sometimes change their behavior simply due to the experimenter paying attention to them rather than due to the effects of an independent variable. In this case any change in conditions can lead to a change in behavior. When this happens the ____ is said to be a problem.

A) Hawthorne effect
B) Simon fallacy
C) double bind effect
D) equivalency error