Explanation
Correct answer: B.
Choice B is the best answer because it most logically completes the text’s discussion of how compensation in psychology studies may affect the applicability of results. In this context, “an inducement” means a reward offered to encourage a person to take a particular action. The text indicates that psychology researchers commonly offer rewards such as gift cards to encourage people to participate in their studies, potentially rendering the participant pool unrepresentative of the target population. This context supports the idea that participants are joining studies in response to an inducement.
Why the other choices are wrong
Choice A
Choice A is incorrect. While participants might join a study in response to “a propensity,” or a natural inclination, to do so, the text isn’t focused on participants’ predispositions. Rather, the text is concerned with the external rewards that researchers offer to attract participants.
Choice C
Choice C is incorrect because saying that participants join studies in response to “a paradigm,” or a typical model or framework, wouldn’t make sense in context. The text doesn’t address any such framework. Instead, it focuses on tangible rewards that researchers offer to attract study participants.
Choice D
Choice D is incorrect because saying that participants join a study in response to “an appeasement,” or a concession made to pacify a person, wouldn’t make sense in context. The text describes researchers offering gift cards and other forms of compensation to attract willing study participants, not to address anyone’s grievance or dissatisfaction.
Student discussion
marcosat 0 likes
Appeasment means that people give in to something IE concede to. Therefore, an inducement works better