To Determine Whether You Are a Good Athlete, Worker, Parent

question 466

Multiple Choice

To determine whether you are a good athlete, worker, parent, or friend or whether your views on politics, religion, or music are unusual or widely shared, you usually engage in the process of

• A)attribution.
• B)groupthink.
• C)social comparison.
• D)social facilitation.

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Definitions:

Placebo Effect

A phenomenon wherein a patient's symptoms can improve after receiving a treatment with no therapeutic value, purely because of the individual's belief in the treatment's efficacy.

Experimenter Bias

A type of research bias where the expectations or preferences of the researcher influence the outcomes of the study.

Researcher's Expectations

Preconceived beliefs or predictions about the outcome of a study, which can potentially influence the results unintentionally.

Statistically Significant

A term used to describe a result that is unlikely to have occurred by chance alone, according to a pre-determined threshold in hypothesis testing.