If Parents Excessively Reinforce Clinging and Punish Attempts at Independence,the

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Multiple Choice

If parents excessively reinforce clinging and punish attempts at independence,the result might be the development of _____ in their children.

• A) paranoid personality disorder
• B) borderline personality disorder
• C) dependent personality disorder
• D) narcissistic personality disorder

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Definitions:

Significance Level

A statistical measure that defines the threshold at which a hypothesis test's result is considered statistically significant, typically denoted as alpha (α).

Independent Random Samples

Samples drawn from a population in such a way that each individual sample is obtained independently and from the same distribution.

Confidence Interval

A range of values derived from sample data that estimates the range within which a population parameter is believed to lie with a certain level of confidence.

Pooled Estimator

A method used to estimate a common mean or variance from two or more samples, especially in t-tests involving independent samples with assumed equal but unknown variances.