McMillan and Colleagues (2009)studied Cortisol Responses to Standard Psychological Stressor

question 156

Multiple Choice

McMillan and colleagues (2009) studied cortisol responses to standard psychological stressor in a group of female youths exposed to childhood maltreatment, relative to a control group. The attenuated response from maltreated youth, as compared to a typical increase of cortisol in the control group, was interpreted as:

• A)A symptom of dysregulation that may play a role in their vulnerability
• B)A symptom of adaptation that may play a role in their vulnerability
• C)A misunderstanding of the direction of the correlation between the variables
• D)None of the above

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Definitions:

Market Efficiency

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Abnormal Returns

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Publicly Available Information

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Debt Hypothesis

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