Stephanie is having participants report their feelings of racism on a survey.  Suppose the participants do not report their true feelings but rather say they have no racis thoughts. They want to avoid potentially embarrassing responses that will make Stephanie think badly of them.  Such a problem is called

Dion is testing children in his study. He takes special care to familiarize them with the experimenter, the equipment, and the procedure before he begins to collect data.  He is attempting to reduce reactivity by using

It is fairly common in psychological experiments for the researcher to conceal the purpose of the experiment from the participants.  Why does the experimenter disguise the true purpose of the study?

Balancing a researcher's right to study a behavior with the right of participants to be protected from abuse is the concern of

In Milgram's (1963) experiments on obedience to authority, he had participants believe they were delivering shocks to a learner in the next room each time the learner made an error.  The main risk to participants in this study was

After a study, if there are any negative consequences of the procedure, the experimenter must

The purpose of a Human Subject Review Committee or an Institutional Review board is to

Which of these reasons does not explain why psychologists study animals?

Science tries to prevent scientific fraud by

An example of how experimenter expectancies are a problem in animal studies was demonstrated by