In the Trolley Case, If You Turn the Trolley

question 167

Multiple Choice

In the trolley case, if you turn the trolley

• A) Everyone is saved.
• B) Five people are killed.
• C) One person is killed.
• D) Everyone is killed.

Describe the concept of adolescence egocentrism, the personal fable, and the imaginary audience.

Explain scaffolding and the zone of proximal development as described by Vygotsky.

Understand the fundamental principles of Malthusian theory regarding population growth.

Identify and explain examples of negative and positive checks as per Malthusian theory.

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Definitions:

PKa

A measure of acidity that indicates the strength of an acid by showing the equilibrium constant for the dissociation of acid into protons and its conjugate base.

Central Limit Theorem

A statistical theory that states that the sampling distribution of the mean of any independent, random variable will be normal or nearly normal, if the sample size is large enough.

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped frequency distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Finite Population Correction Factor

A factor applied to the calculation of sampling error when sampling without replacement from a finite population.