You Just Learned That a Person You Knew in High

question 68

Multiple Choice

You just learned that a person you knew in high school committed suicide. You were surprised until you later learned that the person had developed into something of a loner and had cut off ties with her church, family, and closest friends. Complicating matters, your friend had been unemployed for many months. Following Durkheim, you would be most likely to classify her suicide as:

• A) altruistic.
• B) fatalistic.
• C) anomic.
• D) egoistic.
• E) particularistic.

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Definitions:

Reject

In statistical hypothesis testing, the process of dismissing the null hypothesis based on the evidence from the data analysis.

H0

The null hypothesis in statistical analysis that indicates no significant difference or effect.

Simple Effect

The effect of one factor at a particular level of another factor in a factorial design experiment.

Interaction Effect

The phenomenon where the effect of one independent variable on the dependent variable differs depending on the level of another independent variable.