An Experiment That Forces Rats to Take a Particular Direction

question 5

Multiple Choice

An experiment that forces rats to take a particular direction at a junction in a maze and then observes the differences in times for the rats that went left and rats that went right is a(n) _________________ study.

• A) observational
• B) longitudinal
• C) experimental
• D) None of the above.

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Definitions:

Z-Score

Another term for standard score, indicating the number of standard deviations a data point is from the mean of its distribution.

Standard Deviations

A statistical measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values.

Standard Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped probability distribution characterized by a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, used in many areas of statistical analysis.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in a data set vary from the mean.