Liberman, Samuels, and Ross (2004) Randomly Assigned Participants Previously Identified

question 47

Multiple Choice

Liberman, Samuels, and Ross (2004) randomly assigned participants previously identified as cooperative or competitive to play a game that was labeled either the Wall Street Game or the Community Game. If their results had indicated that, no matter what the game, participants who were identified as competitive behaved more competitively in both groups than did participants who were identified as cooperative, these findings would have suggested that __________.

• A) seemingly minor aspects of a social situation can override personality differences
• B) cooperation and competition are based on personality characteristics that are consistent across social situations
• C) competitive participants in the Wall Street Game caused their partners to respond in kind
• D) cooperative participants in the Community Game caused their partners to respond in kind

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Definitions:

Population Standard Deviation

The measure of the dispersion of data points in a population from its mean, providing insight into the variability within the entire population.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter, with a certain level of confidence.

Sample Size

The number of observations or data points collected in a sample from a population, impacting the precision and reliability of statistical estimates.

UCL

Upper Control Limit, a threshold in statistical quality control charts indicating the maximum acceptable variation in a process.