Provide an Appropriate Response

question 120

True/False

Provide an appropriate response.
-Two triangles are similar if they have the same size, but not necessarily the same
shape.

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Definitions:

Guttman Scale

A scale that contains either favourable or unfavourable statements arranged hierarchically. Agreement with a strong statement implies agreement with weaker ones; disagreement with a weak one implies disagreement with stronger ones.

Cumulative Items

The accumulation or sum of items over a period.

Unidimensionality

A Guttman scale consists of a single (low to high) dimension. It is also cumulative; that is, agreement with the highest-scoring item implies agreement with all lower-scoring items.

Bogus Pipeline Technique

A psychological technique used in social research to elicit honest responses from participants by falsely claiming the existence of a lie-detector-like mechanism.