Psychology

Describe the biases that might arise from conducting an experiment to test the hypothesis you

proposed in the previous assignments. Describe

how you would reduce or eliminate these

biases.

Focus on ‘demand characteristics’, but also consider some of the other possible biases

described in the text, as appropriate, including 'social desirability', 'retrospective bias',

'participant reactivity',

'observer bias', 'ceiling effects', 'floor effects', 'non

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response bias', or

‘sampling bias’, as appropriate.

This assignment will be part of the Procedure sub

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section of the Methods section of your

research proposal for the term paper.

Describe the biases that might arise from conducting an experiment to test the hypothesis you

proposed in the previous assignments. Describe how you would reduce or eliminate these

biases. Focus on ‘demand characteristics’, but also consider some of the other possible biases

described in the text, as appropriate, including 'social desirability', 'retrospective bias',

'participant reactivity', 'observer bias', 'ceiling effects', 'floor effects', 'non-response bias', or

‘sampling bias’, as appropriate.

This assignment will be part of the Procedure sub-section of the Methods section of your

research proposal for the term paper.