When Having a Negative Experience, Children's Stress Reactions

question 110

Multiple Choice

When having a negative experience, children's stress reactions

• A) are higher when a best friend observes the event.
• B) are more stable when a best friend is present for the experience.
• C) do not differ according to the presence of a best friend but do differ according to the presence of unfamiliar peers.
• D) display none of these patterns.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability within a set of values, indicating how much individual values differ from the mean.

Correlation

A statistic that measures the degree to which two variables move in relation to each other.

Nonlinear

A term describing the relationship between variables where the effect of changing one variable on another is not constant; it does not follow a straight line.

Spread

The difference between the highest and lowest values in a data set, indicating the variability.