In the sidewalk experiment, various numbers of people
stood on a busy New York City street and, on cue, began looking at a sixth-floor window across the street. Soon many of the people walking on the street stopped and looked up at the window. This experiment illustrates
a. groupthink.
b. social influence.
c. the fundamental attribution error.
d. cognitive dissonance.
ANSWER: b
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A) tables are not available for the normal curve. B) the population variance is estimated. C) Z distributions were not used at the time the t test for independent means was invented. D) there are more degrees of freedom for two samples than for one.
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A. early B. light C. restless D. the deepest stage of