A Fellow Student Failed to Replicate the Bystander Effect, a Well-Established

question 129

Multiple Choice

A fellow student failed to replicate the bystander effect, a well-established effect in social psychology.Because this student failed to find a statistically significant difference in helping behaviors as the number of bystanders increased, it is possible that the student:

• A) made a Type II error.
• B) made a Type I error.
• C) committed a false positive.
• D) committed the confounding variable error.

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