A Person with a Euphoric Mood,a Decreased Need for Sleep,and

question 213

Multiple Choice

A person with a euphoric mood,a decreased need for sleep,and grandiose or exaggerated cognitions would most likely be diagnosed as having:

• A)psychogenic fugue.
• B)schizophrenia.
• C)major depression.
• D)mania.

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Definitions:

Spurious Relationship

A false or misleading correlation between two variables that appear to be connected but are actually related due to the presence of a third, hidden factor.

Control Variable

A variable that is kept constant during an experiment to ensure that any changes in the outcome are due to the independent variable.

Independent Variables

Factors in a study or experiment that are altered or adjusted in order to examine their impacts on the variables that depend on them.

Dependent Variables

In research, these are the variables that are tested to see if they are affected by changes in independent variables, essentially the outcome of interest.