That People Sometimes See What They Either "Want to See

question 165

Multiple Choice

That people sometimes see what they either "want to see" or "expect to see" BEST reflects the text's unifying theme that

• A)heredity and environment jointly influence behavior.
• B)behavior is shaped by cultural heritage.
• C)people's experience of the world is empirical.
• D)people's experience of the world is subjective.

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Definitions:

Two-way Classification

A method of organizing data that involves two independent variables to understand the relationship between them and their impact on a dependent variable.

Chi-square Technique

A statistical method used to assess the differences between observed frequencies and expected frequencies in one or more categories.

Qualitative Variables

Variables that describe or categorize attributes or characteristics of a sample or population, without implying any order or numerical value for comparison.

Goodness-of-fit-test

A statistical test used to determine how well sample data fit a distribution from a population with a normal distribution.