A Strength of Nisbett and Cohen's Research Program into the Regional

question 25

Multiple Choice

A strength of Nisbett and Cohen's research program into the regional differences in violence between the U.S.South and North is that

• A)they accounted for biases between the two groups.
• B)they were able to manipulate all of their independent variables.
• C)they were able to cause northerners to respond like southerners.
• D)there are no response bias differences between these two groups.
• E)they used multiple methods across their studies.

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Definitions:

Continuous Normal Distribution

A type of probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values differ from the mean of the set.

Normal Distribution

A probability distribution that is symmetric around the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Continuous Random Variable

A random variable that may assume any numerical value in an interval or collection of intervals.