Regarding the Approach-Avoidance Conflict, Which of the Following Statements Is

question 38

Multiple Choice

Regarding the approach-avoidance conflict, which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A)The approach-avoidance conflict involves a person being simultaneously attracted to and repelled by the same situation or goal.
• B)The approach-avoidance conflict often creates ambivalent feelings in a person.
• C)A person seldom escapes from an approach-avoidance conflict and often resorts to partial approach solutions.
• D)The approach-avoidance conflict often results in the person freezing and then using displacement to deal with this difficult situation.

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Definitions:

Type II Error

A statistical error that occurs when a null hypothesis is not rejected when it is in fact false.

Null Hypothesis

A statement of no effect or no difference, used as a default assumption in statistical hypothesis testing.

T Distribution

A probability distribution used in statistical analysis for small sample sizes, shaped similarly to a normal distribution but with thicker tails.

Standard Normal Distribution

A normal distribution with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.