Joseph Kept Thinking About the Argument He Had the Day

question 112

Multiple Choice

Joseph kept thinking about the argument he had the day before. He found himself feeling more and more worried that he had spoken too harshly, replaying the conversation over and over in his mind, thinking about what else he might have said. He is engaged in something called

• A) dejection.
• B) rumination.
• C) depression.
• D) mental motion.

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Definitions:

Median

The middle value in a set of data when it is ordered in numerical sequence, or the average of the two middle values when the set has an even number of values.

Average

A statistical measure that summarizes a data set by dividing the sum of all values by the number of values.

Total

Referring to the complete amount or sum of parts.

Relative Frequency

In statistics, relative frequency refers to the ratio of the number of times a particular event occurs to the total number of events observed.