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Wundt and His Students Found That It Took a Subject

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Wundt and his students found that it took a subject about one-tenth of a second longer to respond to a stimulus when concentrating attention on the expected stimulus,as opposed to when concentrating on the required response.To what process did they attribute the extra time?


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Degrees of Freedom

The number of values in the final calculation of a statistic that are free to vary.

Qualitative Variables

Variables that express qualitative attributes and differentiate by category, not in numerical terms.

Chi-Square Test

A nonparametric test used to determine if there is a significant association between two categorical variables.

Sampling Distribution

The probability distribution of a given random-sample-based statistic if you repeatedly sample from the same population.

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