A Psychologist Visiting a Classroom Concludes That One of the Children

question 348

Multiple Choice

A psychologist visiting a classroom concludes that one of the children is depressed because the child is quiet and unresponsive.Actually, the child has the flu.The psychologist has made what error?

• A) failure to distinguish correlation from causation
• B) failure to distinguish inference from observation
• C) failure to use experimental controls
• D) failure to obtain a representative sample

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