Question

Mary found an interaction between a defendant's gender (male or female) and their appearance (attractive or unattractive) on judgments of criminal behavior. She analyzes the difference between judgments for unattractive defendants who are male or female. She then performs the same analysis for attractive males and females. Mary has examined the______________.a. main effect of appearance.b. simple main effect of appearance.c. main effect of gender.d. simple main effect of gender.

Answer 1

b. simple main effect of appearance.

Step-by-step explanation:

Simple main effect refers to the difference among a factor when the means are compared for certain levels of the independent factor. Here, Mary is considering appearance as the independent factor and the difference is being calculated between judgments for unattractive defendants who are male or female and judgments for attractive males and females defendants. The effect of each particular level of independent factor (appearance) on the dependent factor (judgement) is studied by Mary. Hence, the answer would be simple main effect of appearance.