What Is the Purpose of the DSM-V

question 8

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of the DSM-V?

• A) It provides a detailed list of clinical psychiatric disorders.
• B) It details data and statistics about mental disorders in the United States.
• C) It serves as the official American resource manual detailing diagnostic criteria of psychiatric disorders.
• D) It acts as a compendium of the international demographics of substance abuse and mental disorders.

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Definitions:

Probability

A measure quantifying the likelihood that certain events will occur.

Null Hypothesis

Re-phrased: The presumption in statistical testing that asserts no association or effect among studied variables.

Critical Value

A threshold in hypothesis testing that defines the boundary beyond which an observed test statistic is considered statistically significant.

Level of Significance

A threshold used in hypothesis testing that determines the probability of wrongly rejecting a true null hypothesis.