Dr. Smith has plans to conduct an experiment on motivation. His subjects will be varsity athletes who receive the experimental treatment as a group. Dr. Smith has hired Jack to act as a research subject who has little motivation despite the encouragement provided to him during the experiment. Dr. Smith wants to see how Jack's behavior affects the motivation of the actual research subjects. Jack is serving as

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Jack is a confederate, a person who is part of the experiment but is working with the researchers to manipulate the experimental conditions. In this case, Jack is being used to create a scenario where Dr. Smith can observe how the behavior of someone who lacks motivation affects the motivation of the genuine research subjects.

Dr Smith Has Plans to Conduct an Experiment on Motivation