Demand characteristics are:
a. cues which give participants an idea about the hypothesis under investigation
b. one type of subject effect
c. sometimes caused by differential behaviour of the experimenter toward different groups in the study
d. decreased when the subject is given a false explanation of the aim of the experiment
e. both a and b
Ans: E
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