How People Select, Interpret, Remember, and Use Information to Make

question 152

Multiple Choice

How people select, interpret, remember, and use information to make judgments and decisions is called __________.

• A) self-esteem
• B) social psychology
• C) behaviorism
• D) social cognition

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Definitions:

Confidence

In statistics, the degree of certainty or probability that a parameter lies within a specified range of values.

Insecticide

A chemical substance used to kill insects.

Median Difference

The middle value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data set's difference distribution.

Sign Test

A non-parametric statistical test used to evaluate whether the median of a population differs significantly from a specified value.