Life expectancy, in which the majority of people live to old age but some people die young, is BEST described by a:
A) normal distribution with a large standard deviation.
B) normal distribution with a small standard deviation.
C) negatively skewed distribution.
D) positively skewed distribution.
C) negatively skewed distribution.
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Shana has borderline personality disorder. She is in a therapy session, and tells her therapist she is "sick of the suicidal thoughts and gestures" she always finds herself engaging in. The therapist replies, "I think to give up these kinds of gestures will be very hard. It will probably require a commitment of a year to a therapy program. Can you make that commitment?" "Of course," Shana
replies. "I don't want to live like this." Her therapist counters, "Then you realize if you committed to a year of therapy, that means you cannot commit suicide or the therapy can't work. Do you understand this?" What type of therapy is Shana probably receiving? a. Short-term psychodynamic therapy b. Cognitive-behavioral therapy c. Psychoanalysis d. Dialectical behavior therapy
________ was developed to make it possible to test the null hypothesis that there is no difference between a number of conditions
a. Alpha b. ANOVA c. Power d. Correlation
Cassandra is a physically attractive person. According to the __________ cultural stereotype, most people who meet her also expect her to be poised, popular, intelligent, and mentally healthy
a. what-is-beautiful-is-good c. what-is-successful-is-married b. what-is-popular-is-cultural d. what-is-intelligent-is-successful
Which trait among the Big Five typically decreases by age 30?
a. extroversion b. neuroticism c. agreeableness d. openness to experience