Falkner wanted to ensure his participants understood their responses to the word list rating and categorization for his experiment should be their first impression and occur quickly as the computerized list was presented with a timing element and there was really no time to try and rationalize their rating and category, simply first impression. This method may help with control of ______ related to social experiments.

A. ceiling effect
B. latency effect
C. demand characteristic
D. selection bias


Ans: C

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