Petra just took part in a study in which she believed she was exposing a participant in another room to loud, inescapable noise bursts whenever the participant answered a test question wrong. In fact, the other participant was a confederate and the noise bursts were never played. At the conclusion of the study, Petra was thanked for her participation, but the experimenter failed to tell her the true details of the study. The experimenter in this study failed to:

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The experimenter failed to provide Petra with a proper debriefing, which is essential for ethical research, especially in studies involving deception. Debriefing involves explaining the true nature of the study and the participant's role in it after the completion of the study.

Petra Just Took Part in a Study in Which She