SCENARIO 12-11 The Director of Admissions at a State College Is Interested

question 115

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SCENARIO 12-11
The director of admissions at a state college is interested in seeing if admissions status (admitted,waiting list,denied admission)at his college is independent of the type of community in which an applicant resides.He takes a sample of recent admissions decisions and forms the following table:
He will use this table to do a chi-square test of independence with a level of significance of 0.01.
-Referring to Scenario 12-11,the same decision would be made with this test if the level of significance had been 0.005.

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Definitions:

Freud

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist and the founding father of psychoanalysis, a method for treating psychopathology through dialogue.

Oedipus Complex

A Freudian theory describing a child's feelings of desire for their opposite-sex parent and jealousy towards the same-sex parent.

Latency Period

A phase in psychosexual development, occurring roughly between the ages of six and puberty, when sexual urges are repressed or dormant.

Freud's Theory

A set of psychoanalytic theories developed by Sigmund Freud, emphasizing unconscious conflict, stages of sexual development, and the structure of personality (id, ego, and superego).