What Would Be the Best Reason for Supporting the Validity

question 3

Multiple Choice

What would be the best reason for supporting the validity of age being considered a subculture?

• A) People of the same age have similar religious beliefs.
• B) People of the same age have shared the same experiences and have common memories.
• C) People of a certain age share the same genetic traits.
• D) Age has been traditionally thought of as a subculture and consumer behaviourists have seen no reason to modify that long- standing belief.
• E) Age is a subculture because of the definitions adopted by Statistics Canada.

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Definitions:

Stimulus

Any external or internal event or factor that elicits a response from our sensory system or psychological processes.

Detection

The action or process of identifying the presence of something concealed or the discovery of an entity through observation.

Decision

The process of making a choice or finding a solution among several available options.

Signal-Detection Methods

Statistical and methodological techniques used to determine the ability to differentiate between information-bearing patterns and random patterns that distract from the information.