A 2013 Study Examining the Administration of Hypnosis to Golf

question 89

Multiple Choice

A 2013 study examining the administration of hypnosis to golf professionals for a period of 7 days to improve their golf score found:

• A) that hypnosis intervention worsened golf performance.
• B) that hypnosis intervention did not improve golf performance.
• C) an overall improvement in performance per mean number of strokes during the intervention phase.
• D) an overall improvement in performance per mean number of strokes during the baseline measurement.

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Definitions:

Correlation Coefficient

A measure indicating the extent to which two variables change together, ranging from -1 to 1.

One-tailed Test

A hypothesis test in which the values for which we can reject the null hypothesis are located entirely in one tail of the probability distribution.

Two-tailed Test

A statistical hypothesis test in which the area of rejection is on both tails of the normal distribution, testing for the possibility of both positive and negative differences.

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