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Negative Images Regarding Older Persons Reinforce __________, Which Is Prejudice

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Negative images regarding older persons reinforce __________, which is prejudice and discrimination against people on the basis of age, particularly older persons. It is reinforced by stereotypes, whereby people have narrow, fixed images of certain groups.


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Standard Deviation

Standard deviation is a measure of the dispersion or variability of a set of data points around their mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Sampling Distribution

The chance distribution of a statistical measure derived from numerous samples taken from a particular group.

Central Limit Theorem

A theory stating that when samples are large enough, their mean will be approximately normally distributed, regardless of the population's distribution.

Standard Error

A statistical measure that quantifies the variability or dispersion of a sample statistic from the population parameter it estimates.

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