Five Members of Terry's Sorority Reported the Following Individual Earnings

question 261

Multiple Choice

Five members of Terry's sorority reported the following individual earnings from their sale of raffle tickets: $3,$6,$8,$6,and $12. In this distribution,the mean is ________ the mode and ________ the median.

• A)equal to; equal to
• B)greater than; equal to
• C)greater than; greater than
• D)equal to; less than

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Definitions:

Cognitive Dissonance

The mental discomfort experienced by a person holding two or more contradictory beliefs, values, or ideas.

Dissonance

A psychological or emotional state of tension resulting from conflicting attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors.

Festinger

Leon Festinger, an American social psychologist known for his theory of cognitive dissonance, which describes the discomfort experienced when holding two or more conflicting cognitions.

Sherif's Robbers Cave

An experiment on conflict and cooperation by Muzafer Sherif, demonstrating how group identity can be used to foster unity or create conflict.