Chapter 4, Problem 3E

By manipulating the participants’ experiences, it is possible to examine how people’s performance and attitudes are influenced by success and failure. To do this, researchers can give some participants a feeling of success and others a feeling of failure by giving false feedback about their performance or by rigging a task to make it easy or impossible (Thompson, Webber, & Montgomery, 2002). Describe how this can be done, so that the Belmont Report principles of respect and beneficence are not violated.