Lee Was Momentarily Terrified as a Passing Automobile Nearly Sideswiped

question 207

Multiple Choice

Lee was momentarily terrified as a passing automobile nearly sideswiped his car. When one of his passengers joked that he almost had a two-color car, Lee laughed uncontrollably. Lee's emotional volatility best illustrates

• A) the Yerkes-Dodson law.
• B) facial feedback effect.
• C) drive-reduction theory.
• D) the spillover effect.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A cadre of numbers, derived from analyzing sample data, assumed likely to encase the value of a yet-to-be-discussed population attribute.

Random Sample

A selection taken from a group in which every individual has the same likelihood of being chosen.

True Proportion

The actual percentage of a population that exhibits a particular characteristic.

Unbiased

A characteristic of an estimator that means the expected value of the estimator equals the true parameter value of the population.