Exposure to negative pretrial publicity about a criminal suspect does not increase the likelihood that jurors will convict that individual

In using inferential statistics we should initially assume that in any experiment, the scores

obtained from different groups of participants a. will reflect all possible differences between the groups. b. will be due only to the manipulation of the independent variable. c. should be statistically significant. d. will be different simply due to chance. e. will only be different if the groups have been subjected to different conditions.

Contiguity is the tendency to perceive ________

a) objects that are close to each other as part of the same grouping b) things with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern c) two things that happen close together in time as being related d) objects that are in a common area or region as being in a group