The Hawthorne effect refers to the fact that

a. people act differently than normal in an artificial, laboratory setting.
b. if people become involved in a research task, the task takes on experimental realism.
c. extraneous variables can result in a reduction in external validity.
d. people want to cooperate with a researcher and produce desirable results when being studied.

D

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