Dewayne Is Taking a Psychology Class

question 507

Multiple Choice

Dewayne is taking a psychology class. He isn't really interested in discussions about the unconscious, childhood influences, or the way different structures in the brain work. Instead, he is interested in the purpose of certain psychological mechanisms. For example, he wonders why we feel disgusted by a food that made us sick or why some emotions are the same all over the world but others aren't. Dewayne is thinking most like a

• A)monist.
• B)British empiricist.
• C)structuralist.
• D)functionalist.
• E)dualist.

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Definitions:

T-Distribution

The T-distribution, or Student's t-distribution, is a probability distribution that estimates the population parameters when the sample size is small and the population standard deviation is unknown.

T Distribution

A statistical curve that shows the standard deviations of samples taken from a population and is used when the population standard deviation is unknown and the sample size is small.

Standard Normal Distribution

A normal distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one.

Population Mean

The sum of the values in the population divided by the number of values in the population.