Paper 1 · Research Aptitude
UGC NET June 2024 Re-Exam (23.08.2024) Shift-II
The process of informing research participants about any misconceptions or deceptions used in the study is called:
AActive misleading
BPassive illusion
CDehoaxing ✓ Correct
DDesensitization
Correct answer: (C) Dehoaxing — Informing participants about deception used is called dehoaxing, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★Informing participants about deception used is called dehoaxing, so that is the answer.
★In some studies participants are deliberately deceived for research reasons.
★Afterwards the researcher must reveal the deception to them.
★This process of convincing deceived subjects that they were deceived is dehoaxing.
★So the correct term is dehoaxing.
★Active misleading, passive illusion and desensitization do not name this process.
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