Sheriff's (1936)research Using the Auto Kinetic Effect Demonstrated That

question 134

Multiple Choice

Sheriff's (1936) research using the auto kinetic effect demonstrated that

• A)people often look to others as a source of information.
• B)people are particularly concerned about social rejection.
• C)conformity is difficult to establish in the laboratory.
• D)only pre-existing relationships have the power to influence behavior.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A swath of numerical values, from statistics of a sample, aimed at covering the unascertained value of a population parameter.

Margin of Error

The half-width of a confidence interval, representing the maximum expected difference between the true population parameter and a sample estimate of that parameter.

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data values in a population, indicating how much individuals within this population vary from the population mean.

Interval Estimate

An estimate of a population parameter that provides a range of values believed to contain the parameter with a certain degree of confidence.