Giving Half the Members of a Group Some Purported Psychological

question 138

Multiple Choice

Giving half the members of a group some purported psychological finding and the other half an opposite finding is an easy way to demonstrate the impact of

• A) risk prediction.
• B) skeptical scrutiny.
• C) hindsight bias.
• D) an empirical approach.

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Definitions:

Attractive Defendants

The phenomenon where defendants who are deemed physically attractive may receive more lenient judgments or penalties.

F-test

A statistical test used to determine if there are significant differences between the variances of two or more groups.

Environmental Conditions

The various physical and biological factors that affect the organisms and the ecosystem in a specific area.

Temperature

A physical quantity representing the subjective perceptions of hot and cold, measured by a thermometer.