Suppose Someone Says to You, "I Don't Understand What You

question 11

Multiple Choice

Suppose someone says to you, "I don't understand what you can learn from laboratory psychology experiments in social psychology. They are so artificial, and most of them are done with limited populations, namely college students." What would your best response be, according to a social psychologist?

• A) A great advantage to laboratory studies is the ability to know for sure what is causing what. To see how much you can generalize from them, you can replicate the studies with different populations and in different situations.
• B) It is too impractical and expensive to make every study a field study. Some studies have to be done in the laboratory for these reasons.
• C) College students have personality characteristics that are similar to most other samples.
• D) You can learn a lot from laboratory studies as long as you maintain random selection.

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Definitions:

Inferior Good

A type of good for which demand decreases as the income of the consumer increases, as opposed to a normal good where demand increases with income.

Linear Demand Curve

A demand curve that shows a straight-line relationship between price and quantity demanded, suggesting a constant rate of change.

Constant Elasticity

refers to a condition in economics where the elasticity of a function, such as demand or supply, remains constant along the curve, indicating a proportional and consistent reaction to changes in other variables.

Relatively Elastic

Describes a situation where a product or service's demand or supply is significantly responsive to changes in price, indicating a greater percentage change in quantity demanded or supplied than the percentage change in price.