The Need for Cognition Refers to ______

question 3

Multiple Choice

The need for cognition refers to ______,

• A) the tendency to ruminate over past mistakes
• B) the desire to form attitudes serving a value-expressive and utilitarian function
• C) a proclivity toward forming cognitive attitudes
• D) the tendency to engage in and enjoy complex activities requiring cognitive effort

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Definitions:

Emergency Calls

Telephone calls made to emergency services in situations of acute need for assistance.

Chi-Square Distribution

A statistical distribution used for hypothesis testing of categorical variables.

Expected Frequencies

The theoretically predicted count of occurrences in each category of a contingency table under the assumption that the null hypothesis is true.

Chi-Square Distribution

A probability distribution that is used to test hypotheses about the variance of a population and the distribution of categorical variables.