William Tends to React to Stress by Increased Heart Rate

question 4

Multiple Choice

William tends to react to stress by increased heart rate. Harold responds to stress with gastrointestinal distress. After a period of stress, William developed hypertension, and following the same stressful period, Harold developed an ulcer. What theory would explain this difference well?

• A)Conditioning theory
• B)Somatic-weakness theory
• C)Specific-reaction theory
• D)Multifactorial theory

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Definitions:

Population

In statistics, the entire pool from which a statistical sample is drawn.

Variance

A statistical measure of the dispersion of data points in a data set, showing how far each point in the set is from the mean and from each other.

Normal Probability Distribution

A bell-shaped curve that is symmetric about the mean, describing how the values of a variable are distributed, indicating most data falls close to the mean.

Sampling Distribution

The probability distribution of a given random-sample-based statistic.