Sometimes participants engage in certain behaviors to "help" the researcher get then results the experimenter "wants." In order to keep the participants from trying to figure out what behaviors are expected, the researcher could

a. use random assignment to place participants in groups.
b. increase the level of experimental realism to engage the participant's interest.
c. produce a cover story so the participant doesn't know what the experiment is about.
d. increase the extraneous variables to keep the participant from identifying the independent variable.

C

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