A System of Beliefs, Practices, Rituals, and Symbols Whose Purpose

question 20

Multiple Choice

A system of beliefs, practices, rituals, and symbols whose purpose is to bring people closer to the sacred or transcendent is

• A) doctrine.
• B) religion.
• C) spirituality.
• D) orthodoxy.

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Definitions:

Control Group

A group in an experiment or study that does not receive the experimental treatment and is used as a benchmark to measure how the other tested groups do.

Experimental Group

In research, the group of participants who are exposed to the independent variable to assess its effect on a dependent variable, contrasted with a control group.

P-value

A statistical measure that helps scientists and researchers determine the significance of their experiment's results, indicating the probability of observing the results by chance.

Statistical Significance

A calculation central to inferential statistics that describes the likelihood that the results of a study happened by chance.