The FTC Is Concerned About the Amount of Personal Information

question 61

Multiple Choice

The FTC is concerned about the amount of personal information that is collected through Web sites because the consumer is not made aware of how this information is being used.Over 92 percent of Web sites polled collect personal information, yet only about __________ of Web sites make their customer aware of how that information is being used.

• A)25%
• B)33%
• C)50%
• D)66%
• E)75%

Understand the concept of degrees of freedom in hypothesis testing.

Apply confidence intervals to estimate the population mean.

Use the t-distribution for hypothesis testing when the population standard deviation is unknown.

Conduct hypothesis testing for population means with known and unknown standard deviations.

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Definitions:

Classical Conditioning

The process of learning through which two stimuli are continually paired; a reaction that starts out being elicited by the second stimulus is in the end prompted by the sole presentation of the first stimulus.

Classical Conditioning

A teaching technique involving the connection between a stimulus from the surroundings and one that happens naturally.

US Immediately Follows CS

In classical conditioning, the unconditioned stimulus consistently and immediately follows the conditioned stimulus, establishing an association.

Predictive Signal

An indication or sign that precedes and suggests the probable occurrence of a future event or outcome.