Beliefs About the Shared Traits Social Groups Have That Serve

question 37

Multiple Choice

Beliefs about the shared traits social groups have that serve as a cognitive framework for processing social information are known as .

• A)stereotypes
• B)discriminations
• C)prejudices

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Definitions:

Covariance

A measure indicating the extent to which two variables change together, signifying the direction of their linear relationship.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values, typically used to measure how spread out the numbers in a data set are.

Slope

A measure of the steepness, incline, or grade of a line, indicating the ratio of the vertical change to the horizontal change between two points on the line.

90th Percentile

A value below which 90% of the data points in a dataset fall.