After Amanda Selects a Sample of College Students,she Obtains the Students

question 237

Multiple Choice

After Amanda selects a sample of college students,she obtains the students' scores on several personality scales and on a test of creativity.She wants to summarize her sample's performance on the creativity test,so she computes _____ statistics.

• A) descriptive
• B) correlational
• C) empirical
• D) inferential

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Definitions:

Availability Heuristic

An intellectual shortcut based on immediate examples that present themselves in a person's thoughts when assessing a specific area, idea, method, or decision.

Writer

An individual who engages in the act of producing written content, such as books, articles, or other textual materials.

Teacher

An individual who instructs or educates others, typically in an academic setting.

Simple Probability

The likelihood of a single event occurring, calculated by dividing the number of favorable outcomes by the total number of possible outcomes.