Your Text Describes a Study by Dijksterhuis and Van Knippenberg

question 111

Multiple Choice

Your text describes a study by Dijksterhuis and van Knippenberg (1998) in which participants earned higher scores in a trivia game when they thought about professors than when they thought about soccer hooligans.Your text attributes this result to the activation of knowledge.With respect to the definition of psychology,your text's explanation of the finding emphasizes:

• A) behavior
• B) the mind
• C) the brain
• D) either the brain or the mind; the brain and the mind are the same thing

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Definitions:

Shape

Describes the geometric or visual characteristics of an object or distribution, such as symmetry, skewness, or roundness.

Multinomial Experiment

An experiment consisting of a fixed number of trials where each trial has multiple possible outcomes.

Null Hypothesis

A statistical hypothesis that assumes no significant difference or effect exists within a set of given observations or parameters.

Level of Significance

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true, typically denoted as alpha (α).