Factors That Influence Behaviour Are Organized into Three Levels of Analysis

question 239

Multiple Choice

Factors that influence behaviour are organized into three levels of analysis. The level that focuses on mental processes and psychological motives, and how they influence behaviour, is called the ___________ level.

• A)biological
• B)psychological
• C)environmental
• D)sociocultural

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Definitions:

Expected Value

The long-run average value of repetitions of the same experiment or random process, calculated as the sum of all possible values weighted by their probabilities of occurrence.

Parameter

A numerical characteristic or feature of a population that is estimated using sample data.

Sample Variance

A measure of the dispersion or variability within a sample dataset, indicating how much the individual data points differ from the sample mean.

Population Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points in a population, calculated as the average of the squared distances of each data point from the population mean.