In Order to Reduce the Time He Spends Watching TV

question 736

Short Answer

In order to reduce the time he spends watching TV, Greg vividly imagines himself failing an important exam because he watched too much TV instead of studying.Greg is using the self-management behavior technique known as __________.

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Definitions:

Bootstrap Distribution

The distribution of a large number of bootstrap samples' statistics, used for estimating the shape of the true distribution of a statistic.

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A term often used to describe data following a bell-shaped, symmetrical distribution around a central value, with predictable patterns as far as spread and outliers.

Bootstrap Distribution

A technique in statistics for estimating the distribution of a statistic by resampling with replacement from the original sample.

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In statistics, this describes a distribution that is symmetric around the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.