When We Make Inferences About Someone's Personality Based on What

question 106

Multiple Choice

When we make inferences about someone's personality based on what we already know about some characteristics,we are using a(n)

• A) blank-filling procedure.
• B) inferential statistic.
• C) implicit heuristic.
• D) meta-analysis.
• E) implicit personality theory.

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Definitions:

Observed Frequencies

The number of times a particular value or event actually occurs in a dataset.

Expected Frequencies

In statistical analysis, these refer to the counts predicted by a probability model or theoretical distribution, used in the comparison of observed data for goodness-of-fit tests.

Contingency Table

A table often used in statistics to show the frequency distribution of variables, helping in the analysis of the relationship between them.

Equality Of Variances

A statistical condition in which two or more groups have the same variance, often an assumption in certain tests of significance.