A Psychologist Wants to Know If Adults with Normal Vision

question 16

Multiple Choice

A psychologist wants to know if adults with normal vision can be fooled by a certain optical illusion. She recruits 50 students from her PSY 120 class and finds that 42 of them are fooled by the illusion. The population in this study is

• A) the 42 students who were fooled.
• B) the 50 students who served as subjects.
• C) all students in the PSY 120 class.
• D) all adults with normal vision.

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