Which of the Following Statements About Prosocial Lying Is Correct

question 94

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about prosocial lying is correct?

• A) Chinese school children believe that polite lying is acceptable when it helps the group, but hurts an individual. The reverse is true in the United States.
• B) Chinese school children believe that polite lying is acceptable when it helps an individual, but hurts the group. The reverse is true in the United States
• C) In both the Unites States and China, polite lying is acceptable when it helps the group and, in the process, hurts an individual.
• D) In both the Unites States and China, polite lying is acceptable when it helps an individual, and in the process hurts the group.

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Definitions:

Mutually Exclusive

Characteristics of events that cannot occur at the same time within a single experiment or trial.

Sample Space

The set of all possible outcomes or results in a probability experiment.

Random Experiment

An experiment or process for which the outcome cannot be predicted with certainty ahead of time, involving random variables.

Mutually Exclusive

refers to events that cannot occur at the same time in a probabilistic experiment.