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| in festinger and carlsmiths experiement in 1959, which group found the tasks more enjoyable? |
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| The premise of the self perception theory proposed by daryl bem in the mid 1960's are |
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To the extent that internal cues are weak, ambiguous, or uninteruptable, people are in much the same position as an outsider observer when making these inferences
people discover their own attitudes, emotions, and other internal states partyly by watching themselves behave in various situations |
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| in boobs study in 1969, two stores sold mouthwash at 25 cents and 39 cents. the 25 cent store then raised their price to 39 cents who sold the most? |
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| Paul and Pete are betting on a horserace. Paul has laready bet $500 dollars, and Pete is still considering the horse that he is about to bet 800 on. Who is more confident? |
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| Paul, because he already bet |
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| According to a statement by Aronson in 1972 on the cognitive dissonance theory |
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If you want someone to soften his morla attitude toward some misdeed, tempt him so that he performs that deed; conversley if you want someone to harden his moral attitudes toward a misdeed, tempt him but not enough to induce him to commit the deed.
If you want someone to form a more positive attidutdes towards an object, get him to commit himself to own that object
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| A study by P A Lamal in oct 1979, asked colege students this "Memory can be likened to be a storage chest in the brain, intwo which we deposit material and from which we can withdraw it later if needed. Occasionally, something gets lost from the chest and then we say we have forgotten" how many agreed? |
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| in loftus and palmers experiement in 1974, when asked at what speed the cars were traveling when they made contact, which word resulte in the highest variance? |
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| in bransford and franks study in 1971 to try to prove that memories are not stored separately from each other, they showed college students 7 descriptions of an event. which event had the most significant confidence among the students? |
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| the ants in the ktichen ate the jelly which was on the table. |
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| according to fischoff in 1977, what must be done to remove hindsight bias? |
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consider how an alternative outcome might have occurred
evaluate why the results could have turned out differently |
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| In asch's study in 1946, participants were given the words envious, stubborn, crticial, impulsive, industrious, and intelligent or the words intelligent, industrious, impulsive, critical, stubborn, and envious. Which word did he find to have the primary effect? |
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| In miller and campbells test in 1959, what effect was obvserved when participants were asked about the court case right after hearing the back to back presentations |
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| gary is competing against arty for the position of mayor of denver. he is given choice of speaking first or last at the debate. the debate is back to back. what should gary choose |
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| speak first if the debate is a week before the election |
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| in harold kellys 1950 experiemnt, one group of students was led to expect a warm instruction and the other group was led to expe t a cold instructor. how many students in each group entered into class discussion |
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| jonny is doing an experient to see which diet helps people lose the most weight. there are four diets. atkins, ratio, mediterranean, and delievery plan. what type of experiemtn is he performing |
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| cicero is doing a study to find the average life of indoor cats vs outdoor cats. what type is he performing? |
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| tom is doing a study on smoking in college and is collecting the class rank of the participating students as well as their sex. what type is he performing? |
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| beverly is trying to determine how to improve worker effciency, so ehs is looking into the relation of money spent on worker incentive to output of workers? what type of experiement is this |
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| jason performed an experiemtn by giving half of his class his new study guide and the other half of his old study guide. what type of experiemnt is this |
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| terri is trying to figure out how long it will take her to get to the supermarket. she uses her gps which gives her an average of how long it will take to get there. what is this called |
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| rooney is using a ztest to determine if the new turtle feed is worth the extra money. he already gathered raw scores. what is his next step |
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| to find the distance from the mean and to find the zscore |
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| cathy is performing a ztest and gathers the amount of bacteria found in pools using salt. her population mean is 46 and the pop sd is 4. what would the zscore be for the sample mean of 53 |
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| gabby does a second sampling of a population of 50 colelge students about the amount that they play video games. the first sample mean is 6.5 hours a week, which a sample SD of 2. assuming no other sample mean data is avaialbe, ,and the second sample mean is 8.7 what is her population zscore |
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| an example of the central limit theorem is |
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| in order to get a less variable sample, jon and ted increase the sample size |
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| as the blank increases, the data becomes more stable and a better approzimation of the true probability. larger blank tend to be associated with stability |
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| jane is trying to determine if there is a link between craberry juice and higher test scores. useing an alpha of .05 she samples a group of students. half drank before and half didnt. she concludes cranberry juice does have a sig impact of the test scores. what error could she ahve made |
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| error in procedure and type 1 |
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| what is the prob of jane making a type 1 error |
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| in which of these situations would you use a 2taild test |
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| determing the link between energy drinks and studying efficiency |
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| jeremy is reporting the results of an experiemtn in paragraph form. what would he include |
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iv and dv
what type of test was conducted
the mean
statistical results |
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| jeremy is trying to find the mean squares and factor for his experiment. to expres the mean square within he uses MSs; MSb for mean square between, and MSt for total measureing squares. what are the formulas for finding the two values |
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| jeremy is conducting a two way between group anova experiemnt with two indipendent variables. how many factors will jeremy have |
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| what is the correct order of the objectives of resarching business |
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to explore a potential phenomena
to desribe
to explain
to predict
to influence |
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| focus on central tendency. what should you not study |
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| how would being wider affect a curve |
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| how to construct a frequency distribution |
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list scores
list them in order
decide whether groups or ungrouped
generate number and class size for intervals
generage frequency
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| example of discrete variable |
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| number of medals received |
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| alex performed a survey asking for peoples fav colors. what type is this |
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| timmy is measuring the distance between various places in miles. what type of data will timmy have |
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| if amy uses a scatter plot to display her data, then she is comparking |
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| one DV to another and two continuous variables |
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| what are similarities between anovas and ttests |
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using distributions to make decisions about common and rare events
the same 5 steps for hypothesis
using distributions to make inferences about whether to reject the null |
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| what are differences between anovoas and ttests |
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| comparing sample means indirectly by comparing sample variances |
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| the larger the variance.... |
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| the harder it is to find the significant difference |
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| what is a false assumption for a significant differenct |
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| we do not reject the null |
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