Interested in How People Would React to Someone Who Deviates

question 14

Multiple Choice

Interested in how people would react to someone who deviates from the norm, Tom has a friend go to class in a bathrobe and then observes how people react to his friend. This is an example of which type of unobtrusive observation?

• A) physical traces
• B) archival records
• C) simple observations
• D) contrived observations

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Definitions:

Main Effect

The direct influence of an independent variable on a dependent variable in an experiment.

Simple Effect

A statistical term that describes the effect of one factor at a specific level of another factor within an ANOVA test.

Marginal Mean

The average value of a variable across different levels of another variable, often used in the context of multivariate experiments and statistical analysis.

Men

Adult human males, often mentioned in socio-demographic and health-related research studies.