In Their Experiment on Self-Enhancement and Self-Verification, Deutsch and Solomon

question 3

Multiple Choice

In their experiment on self-enhancement and self-verification, Deutsch and Solomon (1959) found that participants who had received failure feedback responded:

• A) negatively to a teammate's note giving a negative evaluation
• B) negatively to a teammate's note giving a positive evaluation
• C) somewhat favourably to a positive note from a teammate
• D) as favourably to a negative note as to a positive one
• E) c and d

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Definitions:

Positive Correlation

A relationship between two variables where an increase in one variable is associated with an increase in the other variable.

Variable Increases

A situation in which a variable shows a rising trend or value over a given period.

Point Estimates

Single values that serve as the best guess or most plausible value of a population parameter based on sample data.

Population Parameters

Numeric characteristics that describe or summarize features of an entire population, such as mean or standard deviation.