Rusty Drinks Beer All Day Long,often Passing Out in a Stupor

question 173

Multiple Choice

Rusty drinks beer all day long,often passing out in a stupor after several hours of steady drinking.Yet he refuses to admit that he has a drinking problem,saying that "it's only beer" and continuing to drink.Rusty is most likely using which defence mechanism?

• A)denial
• B)repression
• C)displacement
• D)reaction formation

Understand the concept of significance levels and p-values in the context of hypothesis testing.

Learn to construct and interpret confidence intervals for the mean difference in independent samples.

Recognize the importance of sample size and variance in estimating population parameters.

Understand and apply the t-test for comparing means before and after a treatment.

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