The belief that others are paying more attention to our appearance and behavior than they really are.
In social psychology, the post experimental explanation of a study to its participants. Debriefing usually disclose any deception and often queries participants regarding their understandings and feelings.
An ethical principle requiring that research participants be told enough to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate.
In research, an effect by which participants are misinformed or misled about the study’s methods and purposes.
Degree to which an experiment absorbs and involves its participants to a certain stimulate. Eg: electric shock.
Degree to which an experiment is superficially similar to everyday situations. *not good in lab.
The process of assigning participants to the conditions of an experiment such that all persons have the same chance of being a give condition.
These are variables that are hypothesized to cause an effect, but are characteristics of the participants and not something to which they can easily be randomly assigned.
