An Instructor Is Preparing a Report Showing Mid-Semester Grades and Notes

question 15

Multiple Choice

An instructor is preparing a report showing mid-semester grades and notes that the mean, median, and mode are all exactly 76.00. What can she conclude?

• A) The distribution of grades is unskewed.
• B) There is a negative skew in the distribution (a few students have very low grades).
• C) There is a positive skew in the distribution (a few students have very high grades).
• D) All of the answer choices

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Definitions:

Gestalt Principle

A theory in psychology that proposes the human brain perceives whole objects rather than merely the sum of their parts.

Closure

The psychological term for the human desire to seek a sense of completeness and certainty in perceiving patterns.

Perceptual Set

A psychological mechanism that influences how we interpret sensory information, often based on our expectations, experiences, and context.

Bottom-up Processing

A type of information processing based on incoming data from the environment to form a perception. It starts with the sensory input and ends with the brain's interpretation of this input.