If You Have Experienced a Painful Emotional Event

question 204

Multiple Choice

If you have experienced a painful emotional event,

• A)you will probably avoid all thoughts associated with the memory.
• B)you will probably tend to keep cues out of mind that could trigger the painful memory.
• C)your active suppression of the memory may, in time, become true repression.
• D)all of these are possible.

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Definitions:

One-tail Test

A statistical test where the alternative hypothesis specifies a direction of the tested effect.

Z-test

A statistical method employed to ascertain if there's a difference between the means of two populations when the variances are established and the sample size is significant.

Chi-square Goodness-of-fit

A statistical test that measures how well observed sample data fit the expected distribution from a given hypothesis.

Contingency Table

A type of table in a matrix format that displays the frequency distribution of the variables. It helps in analyzing the relationship between two categorical variables.