In an Experiment, Participants First Memorized a Sort of Treasure

question 243

Multiple Choice

In an experiment, participants first memorized a sort of treasure map and were asked to picture a black dot moving from one object to another on this map, such as moving to one of the trees or to the hut at the top of the island. The time it took to "move" the dot

• A)was instantaneous.
• B)required significantly less time than the actual distances on the map.
• C)was directly related to the actual distances on the map.
• D)required significantly more time than the actual distances on the map.

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Definitions:

Normal Distributions

A bell-shaped distribution that is symmetric about the mean, indicating that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability within a set of data points, representing how spread out the values are from the mean.

Z-Score

Scores for the standard normal distribution measured in standard deviation units.

Standard Normal Distribution

The standard normal distribution is a special case of the normal distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, used in z-tests.