A demand characteristic is:

A. A personality trait that makes a participant likely to find an experiment too demanding.
B. When a person responds in an experiment in a way that is consistent with their beliefs about how the experimenter would like them to behave.
C. When the experimenter’s behaviour affects the results of an experiment.
D. A personality trait that affects the results of an experiment in an undesirable way.


Answer: B

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