'Motivated Tactician', 'Cognitive Consistency' and 'Naïve Scientist' Are Concepts That

question 38

Multiple Choice

'Motivated tactician', 'cognitive consistency' and 'naïve scientist' are concepts that provide evidence of:

• A) the emphasis on cognition in social psychology.
• B) a researcher's ulterior motives when conducting experiments.
• C) the validity of equity theory in social psychology.
• D) an inability of humans to conduct 'objective' science.

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Definitions:

Independence

A concept in probability and statistics indicating that two events or variables have no association or influence on each other.

Categorical Variables

Variables that represent categories and can take on a limited, and usually fixed, number of possible values.

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution or in the calculation of a statistic, typically in the context of parameter estimation.

Chi-Square Distribution

A statistical distribution used to describe the distribution of a sum of the squares of independent random variables.