Suppose That You Participate in an Experiment That Is Designed

question 146

Short Answer

Suppose that you participate in an experiment that is designed to examine the effects of sadness on creativity. Even though the sadness manipulation used by the experimenters is very artificial, you nonetheless experience deep sadness during the study. Thus, the study was apparently high in ____________________.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

An indicator that measures the level of disparity or distribution of values in a dataset from its mean.

Sampling Distribution

The probability distribution of a given random sample-based statistic.

Sample Statistics

Measures or values calculated from a sample of data used to estimate population parameters.

Population Parameters

Quantitative characteristics or attributes defining a whole population, such as mean or standard deviation.