Which of the Following Statements Is FALSE

question 320

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A) Popular polls and surveys often suffer from volunteer bias because people who feel strongly enough to volunteer their opinions may differ from those who remain silent.
• B) Surveys are procedures used to measure and evaluate personality traits, emotional states, aptitude, interests, abilities, and values.
• C) A problem with surveys is that sometimes people lie or misinterpret the question.
• D) Most people do not realize that a sample's size is less critical than its representativeness.

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Definitions:

Conditioning

A type of learning process in which an individual's behavior is modified through reinforcement or punishment.

Classical Conditioning

An educational mechanism involving the repeated combination of two stimuli, resulting in the first stimulus eventually eliciting a response that was originally elicited by the second stimulus.

Predictability

The ability to accurately forecast the future occurrence or behavior of an event based on current or past data.

Conditioned Stimulus

A stimulus that was once neutral but triggers a conditioned response after being associated with an unconditioned stimulus.