What Rationale Did the Supreme Court Rely on When Deciding

question 12

Multiple Choice

What rationale did the Supreme Court rely on when deciding that segregation in transportation was permissible in Plessy v.Ferguson?

• A)Segregation in public facilities was not unconstitutional as long as the separate facilities were substantially equal.
• B)Segregation was important for maintaining social order,a prerequisite for racial equality.
• C)Jim Crow laws helped African Americans to achieve equality by building character through overcoming adversity.
• D)The equal protection clause applied only to the actions of the federal government,not to actions of private businesses and individuals.-Consider This: The Court had previously limited the Fourteenth Amendment to the actions of the government in the Civil Rights Cases.

Recognize the development and significance of clinical and counseling psychology, including their role in diagnosis and treatment.

Appreciate the importance of cognitive psychology in understanding mental processes and aiding technological advancements.

Understand the interdisciplinary nature of the Human Genome Project and the roles of different types of psychologists.

Grasp key figures and theories in the field of cognitive psychology, especially related to language and perception.

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Definitions:

Standard Error

Represents the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, most often the mean.

Independent Random Samples

Samples selected from a population in such a way that each individual sample is chosen randomly and independently of each other.

Population Means

The average value of a numerical characteristic in a population, representing the central tendency of the population.

Confidence Interval

A confidence interval is a range of values, derived from sample statistics, used to estimate the true value of a population parameter with a certain degree of confidence.