Dr Haupt Has Discovered That Abusive Parents Themselves Often Had

question 173

Multiple Choice

Dr. Haupt has discovered that abusive parents themselves often had parents who used harsh physical punishment on them. Such a discovery relates most closely to which goal of psychology?

• A) Predicting behavior
• B) Describing behavior
• C) Controlling behavior
• D) Changing behavior

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Definitions:

Positively Skewed Distribution

A distribution where the tail is longer on the right side of the peak, indicating that most data points are on the left.

Interquartile Range

A measure of statistical dispersion, represented by the difference between the 25th and 75th percentiles of a dataset.

Median

The middle value in a dataset when it is arranged in ascending or descending order, or the average of the two middle values if the dataset has an even number of observations.

Extreme Values

Extreme values refer to observations that are significantly higher or lower than the majority of the data in a data set, often leading to skewed analysis results.