What Is the Difference Between a Main Effect and an Overall

question 58

Multiple Choice

What is the difference between a main effect and an overall effect?

• A)Main effects are less important than overall effects.
• B)Main effects are more complicated to determine than overall effects.
• C)Main effects look at one variable at a time; overall effects look at all variables simultaneously.
• D)There is no difference between main effects and overall effects.

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Definitions:

Electra Complex

A psychoanalytic theory describing a girl's sense of competition with her mother for the affection of her father.

Defensive Content

Material within a psychological test aimed at eliciting responses that might reveal particular defense mechanisms or insecurities of the participant.

Genital Stage

When the child begins adult sexual development in puberty.

Psychosexual Development

Sigmund Freud's theory proposing that personality development occurs through a series of childhood stages in which the pleasure-seeking energies of the id become focused on certain erogenous areas.