Suppose That Tim Is Relatively Prejudiced Against College Athletes (He

question 28

Multiple Choice

Suppose that Tim is relatively prejudiced against college athletes (he believes that they are overly aggressive and nonintellectual) , while Alex does not appear to be prejudiced against college athletes. Research suggests that Tim and Alex differ in that ____.

• A) Alex has less factual knowledge about college athletes than Tim does.
• B) Alex knows fewer college athletes than Tim does.
• C) Alex does not call to mind stereotypes about college athletes when he meets them, whereas Tim does.
• D) Both call to mind stereotypes about college athletes when they meet them, but Alex overrides such stereotypes with other conscious beliefs, whereas Tim does not.

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Z Distribution

A statistical distribution that describes the distribution of standardized values; it's used in inference regarding mean of normally distributed populations when the standard deviation is known.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variability of a set of data points in relation to their mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Mean

The average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding all the numbers in a set together and then dividing by the count of those numbers.

Standard Deviation

A calculation that determines the extent of variability or dispersion in a series of values.