Rather Than Make a Study Schedule,Erin Spends a Lot of Time

question 80

Multiple Choice

Rather than make a study schedule,Erin spends a lot of time complaining to her roommates about how hard her psychology course is and how worried she is about her grade.Folkman and Lazarus would call this approach

• A) danger control.
• B) emotion-focused coping.
• C) problem-focused coping.
• D) reappraisal.

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Definitions:

Parametric Tests

Statistical tests based on assumptions about the distribution of the data (e.g., that it is normally distributed).

Nonparametric Test

A statistical test used when the assumptions for parametric tests are not met, not requiring the population's distribution to follow any specific distribution.

Mann-Whitney U Test

A nonparametric test used to compare differences between two independent groups when the dependent variable is either ordinal or continuous, but not normally distributed.

Paired-difference Experiment

An experimental design where the observations are made in pairs, and the analysis is based on the differences within each pair.