During a Break from His Job as a Waiter, Bernardo

question 29

Multiple Choice

During a break from his job as a waiter, Bernardo begins to read Hamlet, and is so engrossed in the play that he fails to notice the clattering of dishes all around him. This is an example of _______________.

• A) feature detection
• B) absolute threshold
• C) sensory deprivation
• D) selective attention

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Definitions:

Margin Of Error

The amount of error that can be tolerated in the results of a poll or survey, indicating the potential deviation from the true population parameter.

Confidence Interval

A spectrum of numbers, extracted from sample observations, presumed to hold the value of a not yet identified population characteristic.

Sample Mean

The average value of a set of data points taken from a larger population, used as an estimate of the population mean.

Sample Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values in a sample.