You Have a Set of Photographs of Fore People from Papua

question 10

Multiple Choice

You have a set of photographs of Fore people from Papua New Guinea displaying happiness, disgust, sadness, and fear.You present these photographs to groups of participants from the United States, Argentina, and Japan and ask them to identify which emotion is being expressed.Which of the following results is most likely?

• A) People from all cultural groups will be able to identify emotions correctly in the majority of the photographs.
• B) People from all cultural groups will struggle to accurately identify emotions in the photographs because they picture people from an unfamiliar culture.
• C) People from the United States will accurately identify emotions in significantly more photographs than people from Japan and Argentina.
• D) People from Japan will accurately identify emotions in significantly more photographs than people from Argentina and the United States.
• E) People from Argentina will accurately identify emotions in significantly more photographs than people from Japan and the United States.

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Definitions:

Variance

The average of the squared differences from the Mean, providing a measure of how spread out a data set is.

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