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A parent comes to you to express her concern about her 10-year-old daughter, Jackie, who is afraid of dogs and runs away whenever she sees one. You schedule a session with Jackie and her mother and arrange to have a well-behaved dog present. Although Jackie is highly fearful at first, you encourage her to remain in the office until her anxiety diminishes. You are employing a model of treatment based on 

A structural family therapist would describe the pattern of family organization where boundaries are diffuse and permeable, resulting in a denial of differences and loss of personal autonomy, as which of the following?

A 13-year-old girl is new to school and trying to find a place to sit during lunch. She looks at the first table and thinks “these girls don’t want me to sit here with them.” Which cognitive distortion is she thinking? 

A noteworthy strength of the cognitive behavior approach is 

Conditional assumptions, attitudes, and rules are types of 

Protein intake can range from 0.8 grams to 2.0 grams per pound of body weight depending on age and activity level.

Data file: Datafile_Question 1.xlsx The file above contains a random sample of 200 service times during the busiest hour of the day at a particular fast-food restaurant. Calculate a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of service times longer than 90 seconds. What are the values of lower limit (LL) and upper limit (UL)? Round your answer to 3 decimal places.   

Which of the following can permanently increase our resting metabolism?

You have been assigned to determine whether more people prefer Coke or Pepsi. Assume that roughly half the population (i.e., 0.5) prefers Coke and half prefers Pepsi. How large a sample do you need to take to ensure that you can estimate, with 95% confidence, the proportion of people preferring Coke within 2% of the actual value? Round your answer to whole number. Use the attached Excel spreadsheet to calculate the answer for this question: Blank spreadsheet for your use.xlsx

Construct a 95% confidence interval to estimate mean Age. What are the values of lower limit (LL) and upper limit (UL)?  Data file: Data file – Question 3.xlsx