A Psychologist Notes That We Are Especially Attracted to People

question 114

Multiple Choice

A psychologist notes that we are especially attracted to people whose traits are different from our own.This statement would seem unsurprising to students because

• A) most students have often been attracted to people different from themselves.
• B) this finding is consistent with common sense.
• C) students are eager to interact with those who are different from themselves.
• D) the students have a tendency to exaggerate their ability to have foreseen the outcome of past discoveries.

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Definitions:

Unrelated Groups

Groups in a study that are independent from each other, where the participants in one group are not matched or linked to those in other groups.

Hypothesis Testing

A statistical method that uses sample data to evaluate a hypothesis about a population parameter.

Critical Value

A threshold in statistics that the test statistic must exceed for the null hypothesis to be rejected in significance testing.

Type I Error

The incorrect rejection of a true null hypothesis, also known as a "false positive."