Which of the Following Is True of Governments as Social

question 68

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true of governments as social institutions?

• A) Governments influence thinking and behavior through the enforcement of a variety of laws affecting consumption and marketing behaviors.
• B) Compared with the early and direct influences of family, religion, school, and the media, governments hold relatively more sway.
• C) Americans increasingly complain about the detrimental effects of the government on American culture.
• D) Governments influence all aspects of the culture except for consumer behavior.
• E) Governments are the first social institution a person is exposed to outside his or her home in all cultures.

Understand the basic structure and purpose of experimental research.

Identify the roles of independent and dependent variables in experimental designs.

Distinguish between experimental and control groups.

Recognize the meaning and impact of extraneous variables on research outcomes.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from the sample data, that is likely to contain the true population parameter with a specified level of confidence.

Sample Size

Sample size refers to the number of individual observations or data points collected and used in a statistical analysis.

Variable

Any characteristic, number, or quantity that can be measured or counted and which can vary across subjects in a study.

Confidence Interval

A range of numerical values, calculated from analysis of sample data, which is likely poised to include an unidentified population parameter.