If You Smoke Cigarettes, Psychologists Would Urge You to Quit

question 618

Multiple Choice

If you smoke cigarettes, psychologists would urge you to quit so your children won't learn to smoke by

• A) modeling.
• B) direct reinforcement.
• C) discovery learning.
• D) respondent conditioning.

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Definitions:

Critical Value Approach

A method of statistical testing which involves comparing the calculated value of a test statistic to a critical value to decide whether or not to reject the null hypothesis.

Null Hypothesis

A statement used in statistics that proposes there is no significant difference or effect, serving as the default assumption to be tested against an alternative hypothesis.

Test Statistic

A statistic (a function of the data) used in statistical hypothesis testing to decide whether to reject the null hypothesis.

P-value Approach

A method in hypothesis testing that uses the p-value, the probability of obtaining test results at least as extreme as the observed, under the assumption the null hypothesis is true.