According to a Report in USAToday (February 1,2012),more and More

question 62

Multiple Choice

According to a report in USAToday (February 1,2012) ,more and more parents are helping their young adult children get homes.Suppose eight persons in a random sample of 40 young adults who recently purchased a home in Kentucky received help from their parents.You have been asked to construct a 95% confidence interval for the population proportion of all young adults in Kentucky who received help from their parents.If a 99% confidence interval is constructed instead of a 95% confidence interval for the population proportion,then ________________________________________________________________.

• A) the resulting margin of error will increase and the risk of reporting an incorrect interval will increase
• B) the resulting margin of error will decrease and the risk of reporting an incorrect interval will increase
• C) the resulting margin of error will increase and the risk of reporting an incorrect interval will decrease
• D) the resulting margin of error will decrease and the risk of reporting an incorrect interval will decrease

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Radical Behaviorism

A branch of behaviorism that views all behavior as a consequence of environmental interactions and rejects the notion of inner states like thoughts and feelings as causes of behavior.

Radical Behaviorism

A philosophical stance regarding the science of behavior developed by B.F. Skinner, which argues for the study of observable behavior and its controlling variables in the environment, as a means of understanding human and animal behavior.

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Radical Behaviorism

A perspective in psychology developed by B.F. Skinner that emphasizes observable behavior and environmental factors in understanding and modifying behavior.