A researcher asked middle students what things were most important for them to accomplish at school. Many participants focused not on a desire to do well academically but instead on social goals, such as being with and helping classmates and avoiding behaviors that might adversely affect their popularity. a. response bias. c. researcher bias. b. sampling bias. d. Instrumentation bias.

a. response bias.

Explanation:

Response bias often referred to as Survey bias is a term in so cool psychology, in which an individual or subject in a research study, has probability or tendency to give response or answer to tests or assessment items in untruthful or misleading manner, such that, the response is socially acceptable rather than the truth response.

In other words, response bias occurs as result of people giving answer to survey questions in manners that do not correlates with their actual characteristics, such as attitudes, beliefs, thoughts, or behaviors.

Hence, in this case, many participants in the research study, were giving bias response, technically defined as Response Bias.

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