A Cognitive Psychologist Tested Whether People Spend More Time Looking

question 25

Multiple Choice

A cognitive psychologist tested whether people spend more time looking at and comprehending content words (e.g. ,ball,kick) than other words (the,a) when reading a passage.The mean looking time for a sample of content words was compared to the mean looking time for the population of other words by transforming it into a z-score.The z-score for the sample mean was z = 3.00.With critical values of 1.96,what should the psychologist conclude about the sample mean?

• A)It is an unlikely sample for the population of looking times for other words and probably represents some other population (looking times for meaningful words).
• B)Because of chance,the sample simply represents the population of looking times for other words poorly.
• C)Because of chance,the sample probably represents some other population (looking times for meaningful words).
• D)It is an unlikely sample for the population of looking times for other words,but it simply represents the population poorly.

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