Which of the Following Is the Best Example of the Mere

question 47

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is the best example of the mere exposure effect?

• A) Eduardo starts to think that a new band is cool simply because other people around him think it is cool.
• B) Keisha starts to like a girl at school simply because she has seen her, semester after semester, in so many of her classes.
• C) Michael loves hip hop music. As a result, he tends to overestimate how much other people like to hip hop.
• D) Frances works in a hospital, and encounters doctors and nurses all day long. As a result, she tends to overestimate how many people work in the medical industry; to her, it seems as if almost everyone does!

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Definitions:

Difference

The quantitative discrepancy or deviation between two values or sets of data.

Two-tail Test

A statistical test that considers both the directions of a possible effect, testing for the possibility of positive or negative deviations from the null hypothesis.

Sample Variances

A measure of the dispersion or variability within a sample data set, which indicates how much the sample elements differ from the sample mean.

Test Statistic

A standardized value that is calculated from sample data during a hypothesis test. It's used to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis.