Evidence That Culture Plays a Role in the Development of Childhood

question 90

Multiple Choice

Evidence that culture plays a role in the development of childhood anxiety disorders comes from the fact that

• A)African American children rarely show symptoms of PTSD.
• B)children from cultures that favor inhibition and compliance report more fears.
• C)children from cultures that favor independence report more fears.
• D)overanxious children rarely have overanxious parents.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from statistical analysis, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown parameter with a specified level of confidence.

Null Hypothesis

A theory that assumes there is no statistical significance in a set of given observations, with the aim of testing the validity of this assumption.

Student-t

A probability distribution used in statistical science, particularly in scenarios with small sample sizes or unknown variances.

F-distribution

A probability distribution that arises in the testing of whether two sample variances are equal, used in ANOVA and other tests involving multiple variances.