Which of the Following Best Demonstrates How Modelling May Account

question 106

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best demonstrates how modelling may account for the creation of an anxiety disorder?

• A) A person develops a phobia of natural weather phenomenon after watching his/her mother's fear of storms.
• B) A person with panic disorder misinterprets her increased heart rate as a signal that she is about to have a heart attack.
• C) A person has a bad fall from a tree as a child and learns to associate the fear evoked from this incident with all heights.
• D) A person with a phobia of dogs maintains that fear of dogs by avoiding dogs.

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Definitions:

Population standard deviation

The square root of the variance of a population, which measures the dispersion of a set of values relative to their mean.

Margin of error

An expression of the amount of random sampling error in a survey's results. It represents the range within which the true value lies, based on a certain confidence level.

Sample mean

The average of a set of data points or observations taken from a larger population.

Checkout times

The duration or period it takes for a customer to complete a purchase transaction from start to finish.