A Psychologist Discovers That Moderate, but Unpredictable, Noise During a Cognitively

question 9

Multiple Choice

A psychologist discovers that moderate, but unpredictable, noise during a cognitively demanding task leads to a significant increase in negative evaluations of their partners by participants doing the task in cooperation with another student. Whether a similar level of unpredictable noise occurring in a college dormitory will have an adverse effect on students' evaluations of their roommates is an issue of

• A) sample generalization.
• B) a density effect.
• C) an interaction.
• D) variable representativeness.

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