You are held spellbound by the account in the newspaper of a man who risked his own life to save a little boy from a burning building, even though he was not related to the little boy. Social psychologists would say that the man demonstrated
a. demand characteristics.
b. altruism.
c. reciprocal altruism.
d. in-group bias.
Answer: b. altruism.
Psychology
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The numerator of the t-test contains
a. the condition means b. the alpha-level c. an estimate of the error variance d. the sample size e. the pooled standard deviation
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