Clinical Psychiatry, Published by Kraepelin in 1883, Was an Important

question 91

Multiple Choice

Clinical Psychiatry, published by Kraepelin in 1883, was an important textbook because it

• A) introduced pioneering treatments for severe mental disorders.
• B) explained the causes of many common mental disorders.
• C) attempted to classify mental illnesses.
• D) joined together the professions of clinical psychology and psychiatry.
• E) described methods of treatment for psychiatric disorders.

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Normal Distribution

A probability distribution that is symmetric around the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Continuous Random Variable

A random variable that may assume any numerical value in an interval or collection of intervals.

Standard Normal Distribution

The Standard Normal Distribution is a normal distribution with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1, used in statistical analysis for z-scores.

Z Score

A statistical measurement that describes a value's relationship to the mean of a group of values, measured in terms of standard deviations from the mean.