Eight-Year-Old Hawthorne Has Several Accurate, Well-Developed Scripts, Including One for a Visit

question 140

Multiple Choice

Eight-year-old Hawthorne has several accurate, well-developed scripts, including one for a visit to the doctor's office. Which is the most likely example of her doctor's office script?

• A) Enter clinic, tell mom she feels better, sit in waiting room, see doctor, get shot (inoculation) in arm, cry
• B) Realizing that doctors earn money so that they can buy things
• C) Envisioning herself performing brain surgery on a patient
• D) Remembering that her favorite television show, ER, is also about doctors

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Definitions:

Binomial Experiment

An experiment or trial that leads to two possible outcomes, often termed success and failure, and follows a binomial distribution.

Identical Trials

Trials in a probability experiment that share the same conditions and possible outcomes.

Success

Achieving a desired outcome or reaching a predefined criterion of performance.