To manipulate self-beliefs about having a disorder, a researcher gives healthy participants a fake assessment and informs them that they scored positive for a behavioral disorder. Which of the following is a manipulation check for this manipulation?
A. After the study, the researcher asks participants if they believed the positive score was truthful.
B. A researcher gives participants a second assessment to see if participants might also have a second disorder.
C. A researcher gives participants a debriefing in which they are told that they did not really score positive for a behavioral disorder.
D. A researcher measures how much the participants trusted the researcher during the study.
Answer: A
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