What is the Hawthorne effect?

A. Researcher bias when interpreting results of data collection
B. People acting according to what they believe to be true
C. Subjects of research altering their behavior if they know they are being studied
D. Believing something will happen actually causing it to happen


Answer: C

Sociology

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What will be an ideal response?

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Research on environmental racism indicates that

a. it is probably not done intentionally and many dumps are also located in White neighborhoods. b. the problem is overstated; it does not occur very often. c. the location of hazardous wastes near minority neighborhoods is too frequent to be occurring by chance. d. most of the toxic dumps have now been dismantled and cleaned up.

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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