When Judgments or Decisions Are Influenced by the Way in Which

question 18

Multiple Choice

When judgments or decisions are influenced by the way in which information is presented,this is called a

• A) pluralistic-ignorance effect.
• B) biased-information effect.
• C) framing effect.
• D) processing failure.

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Definitions:

Distribution

The spread of values of a variable or the frequencies of occurrence of different possible outcomes in a dataset.

Sign Test Statistic

A test that does not assume a specific data distribution, employed to evaluate if paired observations have a median that differs.

Sign Test

A nonparametric statistical test used to determine if there is a median difference between paired observations.

N

Often represents the sample size or the number of participants or observations in a study.