A Psychologist Devises a Test to Measure Anxiety

question 267

Multiple Choice

A psychologist devises a test to measure anxiety. He administers this test to over 1,000 persons and learns how many people show low, medium, or high levels of anxiety. Usually the results of such tests tend to form a(n)

• A)normal or bell-shaped curve.
• B)skewed deviation curve.
• C)U-shaped curve.
• D)scatter plot.

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