Professor White felt that he had a representative sample--but he starting to wonder if he really did. Briefly note what might make Professor White feel this way
What will be an ideal response?
Sampling error can produce an unrepresentative sample simply due to chance.
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A political candidate uses a negative campaign commercial in which the candidate's opponent is shown alongside a negative image of an angry mob. The intent of the commercial is to cause voters to
a. have an accurate contrast between the candidate and the opponent. b. realize the opponent was the individual who angered the mob in the first place. c. associate the opponent with a negative emotional response. d. associate positive emotional responses with the candidate who sponsored the commercial.
Inspector Holmes and his trusty assistant, Watson, are snooping around a dark, deserted house in London. Watson suddenly screams, "Holmes! I thought I just saw a flicker of light!" Holmes turns to him and says, "No, my dear boy. You must have been interpreting a random firing of sensory neurons as a stimulus." Holmes is describing ____.?
a. ?an absolute threshold b. ?a just-noticeable difference c. ?internal noise d. ?Weber's law
About 60% of preindustrial societies do not have a word for adolescence because:
A) the onset of puberty is considered shameful. B) marriage typically occurs before puberty. C) children come to be considered adults as soon as they reach puberty. D) children are not treated differently than are adults.
Müller’s Law of Specific Nerve Energies states that ____
a. what is perceived comes from the action of nerves b. the mind is aware of the physical world itself c. the mind is unaware of its own activities d. what is perceived comes from the physical objects that stimulate sense organs