A researcher is studying the effect of caffeine on students' performance on a visual-spatial test
He tells his research assistant that some students are visual-spatial "gifted" and other students are visual-spatial "challenged," even though there are no actual differences between the two groups. After the assistant collects the data, the results indicate that the "gifted" group outperformed the "challenged" group. This illustrates
a) experimenter expectancies
b) experimenter characteristics.
c) participant expectancies.
d) participant characteristics.
A
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
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