Participants Are Asked Which Birds They Think Are "Particularly Birdy

question 28

Multiple Choice

Participants are asked which birds they think are "particularly birdy" and which birds are "not very birdy." We should expect that the birds judged as "birdiest" are birds:

• A) rarely mentioned in a production task
• B) that are infrequent in the participants' environment
• C) identified quickly in a picture-identification task
• D) not likely to be identified as typical

---

Definitions:

Sample Size

The number of observations or elements selected from a population to participate in a statistical study.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities that can vary in the statistical analysis of a given dataset.

Type I Error

The incorrect rejection of a true null hypothesis, also known as a "false positive."

Hypothesis Test

A method in statistics used to determine whether there is enough evidence in a sample of data to infer that a certain condition holds true for the entire population.