​What Conclusion Emerges from Studies on People Who Have Survived

question 100

Multiple Choice

​What conclusion emerges from studies on people who have survived traumatic experiences?

• A)People repress traumatic memories, which then affect their behavior unconsciously.
• B)​Hypnosis is a highly effective way to recover apparently lost memories.
• C)​Most people distort their memories of traumatic events to make them almost pleasant.
• D)​People remember traumatic experiences, unless they were very young at the time.

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Definitions:

Interval Estimation Procedure

A method of estimating the range of values where a population parameter lies, based on sample statistics.

Population Parameter

A numerical value that summarizes an aspect of a population, such as its mean, variance, or standard deviation.

α

It represents the significance level in hypothesis testing, usually indicating the probability of rejecting a true null hypothesis or the type I error rate.

Margin of Error

The range of values below and above the sample statistic in a confidence interval, representing uncertainty in the estimate.