Many Potential Relationships Never Even Have the Chance to Develop;

question 4

Multiple Choice

Many potential relationships never even have the chance to develop; the two potential partners simply wait for the other to "make the first move," and the relationship never begins. Research suggests that this may happen because people tend to attribute their own inaction to _______ and the other person's inaction to _______.

• A) fear of being rejected; lack of romantic interest
• B) pluralistic ignorance; individualistic ignorance
• C) lack of romantic interest; fear of being rejected
• D) attributional bias; pluralistic ignorance

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Definitions:

Nondirect Relationship

A relationship between two variables where changes in one variable do not lead to consistent and predictable changes in another variable directly.

One-tailed

A hypothesis test where the area of interest is only on one side of the sampling distribution, indicating either a greater-than or less-than direction but not both.

Two-tailed

A type of statistical test that considers both directions of a possible effect, looking for deviations from a null hypothesis in two opposite directions.

Nondirectional

A hypothesis that does not predict the specific direction of the relationship between variables.