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GCSE Psychology · key term
Cues that lead participants to work out what a study is investigating and change their behaviour in response.
Used by AQA and OCR
Paper 1
Cues in a research situation that lead participants to infer what is expected of them and may change their behaviour.
Revise: Education and Piaget’s TheoryThe response could therefore reflect a demand characteristic, rather than an inability to conserve.
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Cues that allow participants to work out the purpose of a study and may cause them to change their behaviour.
Pedestrians did not know they were in an experiment, reducing demand characteristics: they were less likely to act as they thought a researcher expected.
A feature of a study that gives participants clues about its purpose and may lead them to change their behaviour.
A cue in a study that allows participants to guess its aim and may lead them to change their behaviour.
