Someone Who Is Less Financially Successful May Look Down Upon

question 16

Multiple Choice

Someone who is less financially successful may look down upon groups that are even less successful as a way to protect his or her own ego. This is an example of the ________ function of prejudice.

• A) value-expressive
• B) ego-defensive
• C) power-expressive
• D) social-expressive

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Definitions:

Level of Confidence

The probability or degree of certainty that the result of a statistical test or estimate falls within a specific range.

Confidence Interval

A range of values derived from sample statistics that is likely to contain the true parameter of the population with a specified level of confidence.

Population Mean

The average of all the numerical values in a population, calculated as the total sum of the values divided by the number of values in the population.

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion of all values in a given population from the mean of that population.