A Psychologist Has Collected Some Data Representing the Number of Friends

question 1

Multiple Choice

A psychologist has collected some data representing the number of friends college students report they have. The data set follows: 6, 4, 3, 2, 7, 3, 8, 5. If the psychologist reports 3 as a measure of central tendency, which measure was used?

• A) mode
• B) mean
• C) median
• D) standard deviation

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Definitions:

Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon

A common cognitive experience where a person is unable to fully recall a familiar word or name, despite feeling that retrieval is imminent.

Cryptomnesia

A memory bias where a person mistakenly believes their ideas are novel when they are actually sourced from forgotten memories.

Retroactive Interference

A scenario where the understanding of new information obstructs the retrieval of earlier learned knowledge.

Eyewitness Confidence

The level of assurance an individual has about their observations or recollections concerning an event or identity.