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Answer: C - The Hawthorne effect is a term that refers to the tendency of some people to work harder and perform better when participating in an experiment. Individuals may alter their actions because of the attention they receive from researchers instead of any manipulation of independent variables. The term gets its name from a factory called the Hawthorne Works where a series of experiments on factory workers was done between 1924 and 1932.