When You Meet a New Person, Stereotypes Typically Serve to ____

question 161

Multiple Choice

When you meet a new person, stereotypes typically serve to ____. ​

• A)establish what you want that person to be like
• B)warn you about problems or dangers that the individual presents
• C)guide the assumptions that you have about the individual-which you will hold on to no matter what
• D)provide you with hypotheses to be tested about that individual

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Definitions:

Internal Validity

The certainty with which results of an experiment can be attributed to the manipulation of the independent variable rather than to some other, confounding variable.

Ceiling Effect

Failure of a measure to detect a difference because it was too easy (also see floor effect).

Strongest Manipulation

In experimental research, the use of the most extreme or powerful version of the independent variable to assess its effects.

Nonsignificant Findings

Results of a statistical analysis that do not meet the criteria for significance, indicating that any observed effect might be due to chance.