AP PSYCHOLOGY

PSYCHOLOGYS HISTORY APPROACHES

SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
If psychologists discovered that wealthy people are less satisfied with their marriages than poor people are, this would indicate that wealth and marital satisfaction are:
A
independent variables.
B
dependent variables.
C
negatively correlated.
D
positively correlated.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The term refers to the process of making very quick inferences about the state, characteristics or details of an individual or situation with minimal amounts of information. Research has found that brief judgments based on thin-slicing are similar to those judgments based on much more information.

Detailed explanation-2: -If psychologists discovered that intelligent parents have smarter children than unintelligent parents, this would demonstrate that: the intelligence of parents and children is positively correlated.

Detailed explanation-3: -Correct answer: An illusory correlation occurs when someone thinks that two variables are related, but they are actually not (they have a correlation of 0).

Detailed explanation-4: -The weakest linear relationship is indicated by a correlation coefficient equal to 0.

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