TABLE 8-9 A University Wanted to Find Out the Percentage of Students

question 27

True/False

TABLE 8-9
A university wanted to find out the percentage of students who felt comfortable reporting cheating by their fellow students.A survey of 2,800 students was conducted and the students were asked if they felt comfortable reporting cheating by their fellow students.The results were 1,344 answered "Yes" and 1,456 answered "No."
-True or False: Referring to Table 8-9,the parameter of interest is the total number of students in the population who feel comfortable reporting cheating by their fellow students.

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Definitions:

Conditioning

A behavioral process whereby a response becomes more frequent or more predictable in a given environment as a result of reinforcement, with reinforcement typically being a stimulus or reward for a desired response.

Surprise

An emotional response to unexpected events or information, characterized by heightened interest and physiological arousal.

Conditioned Emotional Response

A type of learned response in which an emotional reaction is elicited by a previously neutral stimulus through conditioning.

Classical Conditioning

The process of learning through which two stimuli are continually paired; a reaction that starts out being elicited by the second stimulus is in the end prompted by the sole presentation of the first stimulus.