Stanley Milgram conducted a famous study where he led participants to believe that they were administering increasingly painful electric shocks to another 'participant' when that person answered a question incorrectly.The false information provided to participants is known as ______________.

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Deception refers to intentionally providing false or misleading information to participants in a research study. In Milgram's study, participants were led to believe that they were administering electric shocks to another participant, who was actually a confederate of the experimenter and not actually receiving any shocks. Therefore, the false information provided to the participants qualifies as deception. The other answer choices are not applicable to this situation: participant bias would refer to biased behavior or responses by the participant, manipulation would refer to controlling or manipulating a variable in the study, and experimenter bias would refer to bias introduced by the experimenter through their behavior or actions.

Stanley Milgram Conducted a Famous Study Where He Led Participants