When the person administering experimental procedures influences the subjects' behavior or sways them to slant their answers to cooperate with him or her,____ has occurred.
A)experimenter bias
B)response bias
C)Type I error
D)Type II error

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This scenario describes experimenter bias, where the actions of the person administering the experiment influence the results. Response bias (B) refers to a tendency of participants to answer questions in a particular way, regardless of the actual truth. Type I and Type II errors (C and D) refer to errors in statistical hypothesis testing, and are not relevant to this scenario.

When the Person Administering Experimental Procedures Influences the Subjects' Behavior