When People's Incorrect Expectations Are Confirmed and They Relate to Other

question 190

Multiple Choice

When people's incorrect expectations are confirmed and they relate to other people in a way that brings about the very behaviours they expect, thereby confirming their original beliefs, then a _______________ has occurred.

• A)social facilitation
• B)informational social influence
• C)peripheral route persuasion
• D)self-fulfilling prophecy

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Definitions:

StdDev

Another term for standard deviation, indicating how much individual data points deviate from the mean.

Median

The central number that splits a dataset into two equal parts, distinguishing the upper half from the lower half.

Ogive

A graphical representation of the cumulative frequency or cumulative relative frequency on a graph, often used in statistics.

IQR

The interquartile range (IQR) is a measure of statistical dispersion, representing the difference between the 75th (upper quartile) and 25th (lower quartile) percentiles of a data set.