Eighteen-Year-Old Tim Feels Pressured by Internal Needs and the External

question 39

Multiple Choice

Eighteen-year-old Tim feels pressured by internal needs and the external demands of society to make a major change in a new direction, and so he decides to attend college. Erikson termed these types of developmental situations:

• A) sensitive periods.
• B) crises.
• C) proximal developmental periods.
• D) defense mechanisms.

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Definitions:

Least-Squares Regression Line

A straight line that minimizes the sum of the squared differences between the observed values and those predicted by the line.

Regression Assumptions

Fundamental conditions that must be met for the results of a regression analysis to be valid, including linearity, independence of errors, homoscedasticity, and normality of residuals.

Normal Probability Plot

A graphical technique for assessing whether or not a data set is approximately normally distributed, plotting observed values against normally distributed scores.

Residuals Versus Fitted Values

A method to visualize the difference between observed values and those predicted by a model, useful in diagnosing model fit.