Suppose that a participant completes a task in a research study faster than he or she would have completed the task outside the study (i.e., in their natural surroundings). This would be an example of ______.

a. regression toward the mean
b. maturation
c. a history effect
d. the Hawthorne effect


Ans: D

Psychology

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