Bethany Has Been Listening to a Political Speaker Who Is

question 91

Multiple Choice

Bethany has been listening to a political speaker who is encouraging people to support a law that would require all people to recycle aluminum cans,and severely penalize those who do not recycle.The speaker is giving strong arguments in favor of this proposed law and is couching his appeal in moral and ethical language.As a result,Bethany is becoming increasingly annoyed and resentful of the speaker and his arguments.She may be experiencing ________.

• A)biased assimilation
• B)acceptance
• C)cognitive dissonance
• D)reactance
• E)counterfactual thinking

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Definitions:

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent values within a calculation that can freely vary when estimating statistical parameters.

Standard Normal Distribution

A probability distribution that has a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, represented by the bell curve where most occurrences take place near the mean.

T Distribution

A distribution of probability applied to infer parameters of a population when the sample size is limited and the population's variance is not known.

Degrees Of Freedom

A statistical concept used to determine the number of independent pieces of information when estimating a parameter or fitting a model to data.