Brenden Is a Student in Mrs

question 7

Multiple Choice

Brenden is a student in Mrs.O'Donnell's high school algebra class.He barely passed math last year and knows he won't be able to succeed in algebra.He says he doesn't have the brains to do math no matter how much he works at it.The teacher offers to help him after school,but Brenden says it won't help.He's tried tutors before.Brenden's beliefs about himself illustrate:

• A)controllable causes of failure.
• B)an incremental view of intelligence.
• C)an unstable view of ability.
• D)learned helplessness.

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Definitions:

Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true, often denoted by alpha (α).

Chance

The occurrence of events in the absence of any deliberate intention or predictable causation, often used to describe random variability in data.

Confidence Interval

A range of values derived from sample data that is likely to contain the true population parameter with a certain level of confidence.