Which of the Following Is TRUE Regarding Physical Appearance Cues

question 302

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is TRUE regarding physical appearance cues?

• A) They play an important role in person perception and social categorization.
• B) They are particularly influential in the implicit personality theory that most people have for physically attractive people (e.g., "what is beautiful is good").
• C) Physical attractiveness is perceived to be associated with a wide range of desirable characteristics.
• D) All of these are associated with physical appearance cues.

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Definitions:

Variances

Measures of the dispersion of a set of data points around their mean value, indicating how spread out the data points are.

E(XY)

The anticipated outcome of multiplying two stochastic variables together, showing how their variances are interconnected.

COV(X,Y)

A measure of the degree to which two variables X and Y move together, indicating the strength and direction of their linear relationship.

Marginal Probability

The probability of an occurrence of a single event without consideration of any other events.