Remington, a Successful Lawyer, Is Interviewing Applicants for an Administrative

question 82

Multiple Choice

Remington, a successful lawyer, is interviewing applicants for an administrative assistant position in his office. As he scans the waiting area full of eager interviewees, he notices that several of them have blonde hair. "Blondes! There are blondes in our applicant pool! I hate blondes! Tell all the blondes to go home," he whispers viciously to the receptionist, "we don't want 'their kind' in this office." In this example, Remington is engaging in:

• A)social norms.
• B)stereotype threat.
• C)discrimination.
• D)behavioral cognition.

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Definitions:

Expected Frequency

The predicted count of occurrences or the number of times an outcome is anticipated to happen in a statistical experiment.

Normal Distribution

A probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence.

Interval

A range of numbers between two specified limits.

Test Statistic

A standardized value calculated from sample data during a hypothesis test; used to determine the probability of observing the test results under the null hypothesis.