Young Ruthie Is Tickled Pink to Learn That She Will

question 87

Multiple Choice

Young Ruthie is tickled pink to learn that she will be visiting her beloved grandmother who recently moved to a nearby apartment. The first time she walks into the apartment, Ruthie immediately notices the strong scent of the wintergreen-based gel her grandmother used for muscle and joint pain and comments that it "smells funny in here." Soon, however, Ruthie no longer notices the wintergreen scent. However, after Ruthie's initial reaction to the scent would be a(n) ____, and her later lack of reaction to it demonstrates ____.

• A) ​attention; orientation
• B) ​habituation; attention
• C) ​orienting response; habituation
• D) ​habituation; orienting response

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Definitions:

Two-way Table

A tabular method to represent data that can help in analyzing the relationship between two categorical variables.

Column Percentages

Percentages that represent the portion each category within a column constitutes of the column's total, often used in crosstabulation tables to analyze categorical data.

Poisson Distribution

A probability distribution that expresses the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space.

Significance Level

The significance level is a threshold in hypothesis testing, beyond which an observed effect is considered statistically significant, typically set at 0.05.