The school psychologist at Happy Elementary School conducts a study where the students of one fourth-grade class are given five recesses during the day,while students in the other class are allowed the standard two recesses.The psychologist explains to the teachers that more breaks should lead to better behavior in the classrooms and then has the teachers observe the children's progress.In this experiment,there is the risk of ____.

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The risk in this experiment is experimenter bias, as the psychologist has already explained to the teachers that more breaks should lead to better behavior, which can lead to unintentional cues or expectations being conveyed to the teachers, affecting their observations and potentially invalidating the results.

The School Psychologist at Happy Elementary School Conducts a Study