Which of the following statements about demand characteristics is FALSE?
A) One way to control demand characteristics is to induce participants to take on the good participant role.
B) The information that the researcher provides participants as part of the informed consent procedure can be a source of demand characteristics.
C) The use of deception is an acceptable way to control demand characteristics.
D) If an experimental manipulation contains demand characteristics, the validity of the research can be undermined.

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Demand characteristics refer to cues that participants pick up from a study that allow them to generate guesses regarding the researcher's hypotheses. The goal in controlling demand characteristics is to prevent participants from altering their behavior in ways that would confirm the researcher's hypotheses, not to induce them to take on any specific role, such as the "good participant" role, which might bias the results.

Which of the Following Statements About Demand Characteristics Is FALSE