McMillan and Colleagues (2009)studied Cortisol Responses to Standard Psychological Stressor

Multiple Choice

McMillan and colleagues (2009) studied cortisol responses to standard psychological stressor in a group of female youths exposed to childhood maltreatment, relative to a control group. The attenuated response from maltreated youth, as compared to a typical increase of cortisol in the control group, was interpreted as:

A) A symptom of dysregulation that may play a role in their vulnerability
B) A symptom of adaptation that may play a role in their vulnerability
C) A misunderstanding of the direction of the correlation between the variables
D) None of the above