Which of the Following Was a Finding in the Classic

question 259

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was a finding in the classic study by Festinger and Carlsmith (1959) ?

• A) Those who got $1 to perform a boring task said the task was more interesting than did those who got $20. Therefore, they must not be lying-the task really was pretty interesting, after all, and fun, too!
• B) Those who got $20 to perform a boring task said the task was more interesting than did those who got $1.
• C) Paid groups said the task was less boring than did nonpaid groups.
• D) Women performed the tasks for less money than men.

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution or to a sample estimate of a parameter.

Contingency Table

A table often used in statistics to display the frequency distribution of variables, enabling a visual inspection of the relationship between them.

Qualitative Variables

Variables that express descriptive or categorical attributes and cannot naturally be represented by a numerical value.

Chi-Square Test

The Chi-Square Test is a statistical test used to determine if there is a significant difference between expected frequencies and observed frequencies in one or more categories.