In Some Instances of Conversion Disorder, a Clue to the Psychological

question 167

Multiple Choice

In some instances of conversion disorder, a clue to the psychological origin of the disorder is

• A) the person only exhibits symptoms when in the presence of other people.
• B) the person's symptoms were first exhibited in childhood.
• C) the person reports a combination of symptoms that usually do not all occur in the same individual.
• D) the person's symptoms are not consistent with medical knowledge concerning their apparent condition.

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Definitions:

Type II Error

The statistical error that occurs when one fails to reject a false null hypothesis, a mistake of not detecting an effect that is there.

Nonparametric Techniques

Statistical methods that do not assume a specific distribution for the data they are analyzing.

Parametric Techniques

Statistical methods based on assumptions about the distribution of the underlying population from which the sample data are drawn.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from statistical analysis, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown parameter with a specified level of confidence.