Which of the Following Would Provide the Strongest Evidence to Support

question 65

Multiple Choice

Which of the following would provide the strongest evidence to support the theory that schizophrenia is due to socioeconomic factors?

• A) evidence showing that people of lower socioeconomic status have higher rates of schizophrenia than those of higher socioeconomic status
• B) evidence showing that the risk of schizophrenia is positively correlated with the number of life stressors one has experienced
• C) evidence showing that the rate of schizophrenia changes after people have moved from a higher to a lower, or from a lower to a higher, socioeconomic status
• D) evidence showing that the risk of schizophrenia is negatively correlated with one's annual income

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Definitions:

Hydronephrosis

the swelling of a kidney due to a build-up of urine caused by an obstruction in the urinary tract.

Lithotripsy

A medical procedure that uses shock waves or a laser to break down stones in the kidney, bladder, or ureter to allow them to be passed in the urine.

-Tripsy

A suffix used in medical terminology to denote the crushing of a stone or calculus.

Calculus

A branch of mathematics dealing with the study of change, in the same way that geometry is the study of shape and algebra is the study of operations and their application to solving equations.