If Researchers Found That People Take Longer to Identify Words

question 146

Multiple Choice

If researchers found that people take longer to identify words such as assertive and bold as "strong" when the words are associated with female faces rather than with male faces,this finding would illustrate

• A) explicit prejudice.
• B) implicit prejudice.
• C) social scripts.
• D) the other-race effect.

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Definitions:

Rank Correlation Coefficient

A measure that assesses the degree of association between two ranked variables.

Quantitative Data

Numerical data that can be measured or counted, often used in statistical analysis to quantify behaviors, opinions, or other defined variables.

Linearly Related

A term describing two or more variables that change together in a way that can be represented with a straight line in a graph.

Spearman Rank Correlation

A statistic used to measure the strength and direction of association between two ranked variables.