Which of the following is NOT a mechanism by which experimenter expectancies can affect participants' responses?
A) experimenters treating experimental and control participants differently
B) experimenters developing their own hypothesis about the goals of the experiment.
C) experimenters giving nonverbal feedback that cues the participants about how they are expected to respond.
D) experimenters giving verbal feedback that cues the participants about how they are expected to respond.

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Experimenter expectancies affect participants' responses through the experimenters' behavior and interactions with participants, not through the experimenters developing their own hypotheses about the experiment's goals. Choices A, C, and D describe ways in which experimenters can inadvertently influence participants through their actions and feedback, but developing a hypothesis is a part of the experimental design process and does not directly affect participants' responses.

Which of the Following Is NOT a Mechanism by Which