The political science class randomly selected 150 adults from the community in order to obtain their opinions on the upcoming presidential race. This group of 150 people would be considered the
a. representative sample.
b. experimental group.
c. population.
d. control group.
A
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Josephine is at the park with her kids. Another child falls off the monkey bars and is unconscious. Josephine doesn't immediately react because she assumes the injured child's mother is nearby and knows what to do. In fact, the child's mother doesn't know any more than Josephine does. Josephine's assumption that the mother will know more than she does is an example of ____
a. pluralistic ignorance b. group norms c. labeling d. persuasion
Your ______ must be chosen such that the scores do not affect each other.
A. variable B. hypothesis C. demographic D. sample
Which of the following represents a mixture of convergent thinking, intelligence, reason, creativity, originality, openness, and tolerance?
a. genius b. liberalism c. wisdom d. the savant syndrome
The fact that individuals acknowledge that their personality has changed in the past but deny that it will change in the future is called _______.
a. the end-of-history illusion b. denial c. the tragic human illusion d. living in a self-created bubble