A System of Concepts, Assumptions, Ideas, and Principles Proposed to Explain

question 12

Multiple Choice

A system of concepts, assumptions, ideas, and principles proposed to explain people's unique and relatively stable behavior patterns is called

• A)the law of inherited temperaments.
• B)somatotypic guidelines.
• C)a personality theory.
• D)a semantic differential.

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Definitions:

Power

The probability that a statistical test will correctly reject a false null hypothesis; related to the capability to detect an effect if there is one.

Type II Error

The error that occurs when a statistical test fails to reject a false null hypothesis.

Type I Error

The incorrect rejection of a true null hypothesis, or "false positive," often denoted by alpha (α).

Statistical Significance

A measure of whether observed data can be considered as not being the result of chance, typically through the use of a p-value.