Your 15-Year-Old Cousin Exaggerates His Performance in Nearly Every Story

question 240

Multiple Choice

Your 15-year-old cousin exaggerates his performance in nearly every story that he tells. He claims to be a better athlete than he is, a better musician than he is and much more popular than he actually is. To what type of self is he referring?

• A) Feared self
• B) Ideal self
• C) Real self
• D) Fictional self

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

In statistical hypothesis testing, a statement that there is no effect or no difference, and any observed deviation from this is due to sampling or experimental error.

Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis in a statistical test when it is actually true, commonly denoted by alpha.

P-value

A measure in statistics that helps to determine the significance of results obtained in hypothesis testing, indicating the probability of observing the results if the null hypothesis is true.

Standard Error

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, usually the mean, indicating the precision of an estimate.