A Club with 20 Women and 17 Men Needs to Form

question 42

Short Answer

a club with 20 women and 17 men needs to form a committee of size six.
-How many committees are possible?

Describe experimental evidence supporting cognitive dissonance theory.

Apply cognitive dissonance theory to explain behavior change and attitude adjustment.

Analyze the role of effort justification and its impact on perceived value of goals.

Understand social facilitation and its influence on performance.

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Definitions:

Experimental

Pertaining to a method of research that involves the manipulation of variables to establish cause and effect relationships.

Correlational

Relating to a statistical relationship between two or more variables, where changes in one variable are associated with changes in another, without implying causation.

Confounding Results

Outcomes in research that cannot be accurately attributed to the variables under examination because of the influence of extraneous variables.

Independent Variable

A variable that is manipulated in an experiment to investigate its effect on a dependent variable.