Participants in an Experiment Heard a Description of the Military

question 75

Multiple Choice

Participants in an experiment heard a description of the military conflicts between the British and the Gurkas in India. Some were told the true outcome and others were told false outcomes. All participants overestimated their ability to have predicted the outcome that they believed to be true. This is known as

• A) confabulation.
• B) repression.
• C) hindsight bias.
• D) procedural memory.

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Test Statistic

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Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis that there is no effect or no difference, and it serves as the default or starting assumption in hypothesis testing.

Point Estimate

A single value (or point) derived from a sample that serves as the best estimate of an unknown population parameter.

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