Children Who Spent Their First Year or More in Deprived

question 18

Multiple Choice

Children who spent their first year or more in deprived Eastern European orphanages __________.

• A) are not able to bond with their adoptive parents
• B) show greatly elevated rates of attachment insecurity
• C) rarely show any mental health problems in middle childhood and adolescence
• D) show increased ERP brain waves in response to facial expressions of emotion

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Definitions:

Categorical Variable

A type of variable that can take on one of a limited, and usually fixed, number of possible values, assigning each individual or observation to a particular group or category.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can vary in the analysis of statistical parameters.

Chi-square Statistic

A statistical measure used in tests of independence or goodness of fit, quantifying how expected counts compare to observed counts.

Null Hypothesis

The hypothesis that there is no significant difference between specified populations, any observed difference being due to sampling or experimental error.