Psychology / Unit 1 Psych 0108 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Deception and Debriefing
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The idea
Deception withholds or misstates a study's purpose during participation; debriefing discloses it fully afterward.
In practice
Participants told they are testing memory learn at the end that the confederate beside them was part of the design.
Where people slip
Debriefing does not make deception costless. It makes deception reviewable, which is the standard it must meet.
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