In an Experiment by Bushman and Anderson, Participants Who Were

question 29

Multiple Choice

In an experiment by Bushman and Anderson, participants who were playing violent video games took five times longer to respond to a victim of a physical attack in an adjacent room than participants who were playing a nonviolent video game. Follow-up research found that the violent video game players:

• A) were distracted by the game and missed the calls for help
• B) interpreted the incident as "less serious" compared to the nonviolent game players
• C) were people who were predisposed to enjoy the pain and suffering of others
• D) didn't want to stop game play because they were close to leveling up at the time of the incident in the adjacent room

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Definitions:

T Value

A statistic that measures the difference between an observed sample mean and the population mean in units of standard error.

Group 1

An identifier for the first set of items or individuals in a study or comparison.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variation of a set of values relative to their mean.

Test Statistic

A test statistic is a value calculated from sample data during hypothesis testing, used to decide whether to reject the null hypothesis.