A. overestimate how often short men are insecure
B. underestimate are frequency of short men in population
C. overestimate the frequency of short men in the population
D. falsely assume the shortness in men cause insecurity
Related Mcqs:
- Intra- sexual homicide (young men kill young men more than females kill females) would offer support for:
A. biological basis of aggression
B. adaptively basis of aggression
C. homicidal protest
D. media causes violence hypothesis - Rejecting the concept of “S-R” connectionism, further “S-O-R” concept was developed by___________?
A. I.P. Pavlov
B. C.G. Jung
C. E.B. Titchener
D. Sigmund Freud
E. Woodworth - The group polarization effect implies that:
A. group decisions will always be better that individual decisions
B. when most of the group members initially favor a cautions decision, discussion will cause the group to adopt even more cautions decision
C. a group will always eventually divide into groups with opposing decisions
D. when most of the group members initially favor a cautions decision, discussion will cause the group to adopt a risky decision - If one finds a positive correlation between degree of coffee drinking and the likelihood of heart attacks. One can conclude that ___________?
A. Coffee drinking causes heart attack
B. Individuals prone to heart attacks are predisposed to drink a lot of coffee
C. An active life style of certain people causes heart attack
D. None of these - Correlation are useful for ____________?
A. explaining attitudes
B. predicting behavior
C. discovering the causes of behavior
D. doing all the above - High correlation with premature birth has been found in cases where the mother’s behavior included _____________?
A. depression
B. exposure to radiation
C. smoking
D. alcoholic beverages - Which of the following coefficients of correlation indicates the strongest relationship between two sets of variables?
A. -0.98
B. 0.90
C. 0.00
D. 1.20 - A correlation coefficient of 0 means that there is:
A. a strong negative relationship between the two variables
B. a strong positive relationship between the two variables
C. a perfect positive relationship between the two variables
D. no relationship between the two variables - Which of the following coefficients of correlation indicates the weakest relationship between two sets of variables?
A. 0.08
B. -0.29
C. 0.48
D. -1.00 - A correlation coefficient is best characterized as a(n):
A. measure of the extent of the relationship between two variables
B. index of the causal direction between an independent and dependent variable
C. indication of the likelihood that an experimental finding will be replicated by others
D. measure of the likelihood that observed differences may be attributed to chance
