Because He Holds a Psychoanalytic Orientation, Dr

question 10

Multiple Choice

Because he holds a psychoanalytic orientation, Dr. Powers would suggest that the true reason for his son's interest in becoming an international spy involves

• A)a conscious wish to become famous.
• B)a genetic predisposition for behaving in dangerous ways.
• C)unconscious sexual and aggressive drives.
• D)the conditioned response of fear.

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Definitions:

Percentile

A statistical measure indicating the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations falls.

Normal Curve

A bell-shaped curve that represents the distribution of many types of data in which most values cluster around a central mean.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variation from the average in a set of data, indicating how spread out the numbers are.

Test-retest Reliability

The consistency of a psychological test or assessment over time when administered to the same group of people.