demand characteristics & investigator effects Flashcards
1
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demand characteristics
A
Happen when the participants know they are in a study and so they try to make sense of it. They become a problem when participants change their behaviour and act differently to how they normally would.
2
Q
investigator effects
A
Happen when the researchers behaviour affects the outcome of the research as their expectations of what may happen in the study will make them biased in their observations.
