In Working with His Clients and in His Lectures at the University

question 68

Multiple Choice

In working with his clients and in his lectures at the university, Dr. Ferris tends to explain personality and various psychological disorders in terms of a person's responses being reinforced or punished as they were growing up. Dr. Ferris places the most importance on which theories of personality?

• A)humanistic theories
• B)psychodynamic theories
• C)behaviorist theories
• D)trait theories

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Definitions:

Distribution Table

A table that displays the frequency of various outcomes in a sample, often used in statistics to organize data.

Rule of Five

A statistical rule stating that if a sample size is very small (n=5), the median can serve as an estimate of the population mean under certain conditions.

Observed Frequency

The observed frequency is the actual number of times an event occurs in a dataset or experiment.

Expected Frequency

Expected frequency is a term in statistics indicating the number of times an outcome is anticipated to occur within a set of observations, based on probability.