When You Consider the Text's Discussion of Ruminative Thinking, You

question 30

Multiple Choice

When you consider the text's discussion of ruminative thinking, you should recall that a primary component of this cognitive style is that it is ________.

• A)minimizing
• B)personalizing
• C)intrusive
• D)dialectical

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A statistical index that signifies the distribution of data points around the mean of a dataset.

Critical Value

The threshold value that a test statistic must exceed to reject the null hypothesis in a statistical test.

Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis in a statistical test when it is in fact true. It is used to determine the threshold of statistical significance.

Population Variances

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a population's values, calculated as the average of the squared differences from the population mean.