You Look at Three Letters

question 74

Multiple Choice

You look at three letters. Part of each letter has been covered by an ink smear. The first letter could be either P or R; the second could be either E or F; the third could be either B or D. You immediately "see" the letters RED. Which theory attempts to explain this observation?

• A) Whorf hypothesis
• B) connectionist model
• C) gambler's fallacy
• D) expected value

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Definitions:

Research Hypothesis

Statement regarding an expected or predicted relationship between variables.

Ordinal Variables

Variables that represent categories with a natural order or ranking, but where the distances between categories are not necessarily equal.

Spearman Rank-Order

A nonparametric measure of rank correlation that assesses how well the relationship between two variables can be described using a monotonic function.

Pearson Correlation

A measure of the linear correlation between two variables X and Y, giving a value between -1 and 1 which indicates the extent of their linear relationship.