Your Text Describes a Study in Which Researchers Recruited Single

question 6

Multiple Choice

Your text describes a study in which researchers recruited single, sexually active student volunteers to take part in a campaign (actually the experimental manipulation) supposedly designed to get other students who were just becoming sexually active to practise safe sex.The volunteers were asked to develop a persuasive speech about acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and safer sex that was then videotaped.Researchers found that the students who made the taped speeches were more likely to use condoms, a finding that is consistent with ____.

• A)social learning theory
• B)the stages of change model
• C)the health belief model
• D)cognitive dissonance

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Definitions:

Group Mean

The average of a set of numerical values representing a particular characteristic of a group of individuals or items.

Confidence Interval

A range of values that estimates the true value of a parameter within a certain level of confidence.

Population Variance

The variance calculated from the entire population of a dataset, representing the true measure of its variability.

Chi-Squared Distribution

A probability distribution used in statistical hypothesis tests that is built by squaring independent standard normal random variables.