Labouvie-Vief (1990)presented a Story That Described a Man Who Was

question 6

Multiple Choice

Labouvie-Vief (1990) presented a story that described a man who was a heavy drinker.His wife had warned him that if he came home drunk one more time,she would leave him and take the children.At a later time,he went to an office party and came home drunk.Labouvie-Vief asked adolescents what they thought the wife would do.How did the adolescents respond?

• A) Without much hesitation, they thought that she left.
• B) Without much hesitation, they thought that she stayed.
• C) They appreciated the situation that the wife was in and examined several possibilities rather than just one potential solution.
• D) They examined multiple scenarios and definitely thought that the wife would stay.

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Sample Mean

The average value computed from a sample of data, representing the central tendency of the sample.

Standard Error

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, typically the mean, indicating the precision of an estimate.

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points in a population from the mean of that population.

Effect Size

A statistical measure that indicates the strength of the difference or relationship between two variables in a numerical scale.