Question

A group of researchers is replicating an earlier experiment that indicated that participants who received task-specific feedback were more likely to persist at a task than participants who received more general, encouraging feedback. In an effort to ensure that participants are not treated differently based on the condition that they are in, the researchers automate all of the procedures and follow a written protocol when interacting with the participants. The researchers are trying to minimize:

Answer 1

Experimenter expectancy effect.

Step-by-step explanation:

When the researchers automate all of the procedures and follow a written protocol when interacting with the participants they are trying to minimize the experimenter expectancy effect. The experimenter effect acts in a way that his or her expectancies may bias the results. The way the experimenter acts to the group he expects to persist in the task may bias the results. Automating the procedures and follow a written protocol minimizes this effect.