Which Statement Is True About the Four Ds of Abnormality

question 83

Multiple Choice

Which statement is true about the four Ds of abnormality?

• A) Most clinicians agree on what qualifies under each of the four Ds.
• B) Every culture has generally identical criteria of what constitutes abnormality.
• C) An individual can be diagnosed with a mental illness only if all four Ds are present.
• D) None of the four Ds is, by itself, an adequate gauge of psychological abnormality.

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Definitions:

Probability

Probability refers to the measure of the likelihood that an event will occur, quantified as a number between 0 and 1, where 0 indicates impossibility and 1 indicates certainty.

Poisson Approximation

A statistical technique used to estimate the probability of a given number of events happening in a fixed interval of time or space when these events occur with a known constant mean rate and independently of the time since the last event.

Probability

An indicator representing the probability or odds of a specific event happening, with its value ranging from 0 to 1.

Normal Model

A type of statistical distribution that is symmetric and describes how values are dispersed or spread around the mean.