Last Year, During an Investigation of the Time Spent Reading

question 175

Multiple Choice

Last year, during an investigation of the time spent reading e-mails on a daily basis, researchers found that on Monday the average time was 50 minutes. Office workers claim that with the increased spam and junk mail, this time has now increased. To conduct a test, a sample of 25 employees is selected with the following results: sample mean = 51.05 minutes and sample standard deviation = 14.2 minutes. Assume times are normally distributed.
-How would you define the rejection region for this test at ? = .05?

• A)t > 1.711
• B)t > 2.33
• C)t > 1.96 and t < -1.96
• D)t > 3.646 and t < -3.646
• E)t > 2.728 and t < -2.728

Identify the major personality traits, including extraversion and its conceptual opposite, introversion.

Understand the influence of personality on social media behavior and online presence.

Analyze the relationship between personality psychology and other branches of psychology.

Evaluate methods for assessing personality, including observer judgments based on personal artifacts like Facebook pages or dress.

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Definitions:

Visuospatial Memory

The ability to remember and recall information about the spatial relationships among objects and visual features in one's environment.

Basal Ganglia

A group of nuclei in the brain involved in movement regulation, decision making, and learning.

Parahippocampal Region

An area of the brain surrounding the hippocampus, involved in memory encoding and retrieval, as well as spatial memory and navigation.

Frontal Lobe Damage

Injury to the front part of the brain, which can affect mood, behavior, judgment, and motor function.