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Heike's Older Brother Has Suffered from Chronic Depression for Several

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Heike's older brother has suffered from chronic depression for several years.Unfortunately,Heike has been incorrectly informed by her parents that there is a 40 percent chance she will also suffer from depression.Explain how the availability heuristic,framing,confirmation bias,and belief perseverance might lead Heike to conclude that she will definitely be a victim of a severe depressive disorder.


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Effect Size

A quantitative measure of the strength of a phenomenon or the magnitude of a difference between groups in a study.

Standard Deviation

A measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values from the mean.

Variance

A statistical measure of the dispersion showing how much a set of observations differ from each other.

Effect Size

A quantitative measure of the magnitude of the difference between groups or the strength of a relationship between variables, often used in research to assess the practical significance of findings.

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