If a Child Experiences Repeated Failures During the Period of Middle

question 54

Multiple Choice

If a child experiences repeated failures during the period of middle childhood, Erikson believes that the likely consequence would be the development of a sense of:

• A) mistrust
• B) stagnation
• C) loneliness
• D) inferiority

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Freshmen

First-year students in a high school, college, or university.

Probability

A quantification of the probability of an event happening, indicated by a value ranging from 0 to 1, with 0 meaning the event cannot happen and 1 meaning the event is certain to happen.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variability of a dataset relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the values are.

Simple Random Sample

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