A Person Looking at a Person Confessing to a Crime

question 108

Multiple Choice

A person looking at a person confessing to a crime is likely to view the confession as genuine.If they heard that same confession while watching the detective who is questioning suspect,the person will likely view the confession as being coerced.This is an example of

• A)the fundamental attribution error.
• B)the camera perspective bias.
• C)actor-observer perspectives.
• D)the correspondence bias.

Appreciate the role of social factors and instruction in cognitive development, as highlighted by Vygotsky's zone of proximal development.

Understand Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development, particularly the concern for trust in infancy and identity in adolescence.

Understand Erik Erikson's stages of psychosocial development.

Grasp Piaget's stages of cognitive development and the characteristic tasks of each stage.

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Definitions:

Parameter

A numeric characteristic or measure that defines or summarizes a feature of a population or a model, such as a mean or a variance.

Greek Letters

Symbols from the Greek alphabet used in various fields such as mathematics, science, and engineering to represent variables, constants, and parameters.

Sampling Distribution

A statistical distribution that represents the range and frequency of possible outcomes for a statistic if an experiment were repeated many times under similar conditions.

Normally Distributed

Describes a type of continuous probability distribution for a real-valued random variable where the data forms a bell-shaped curve.