Dr Heyer Is a Behavioral Therapist Working with a 10-Year-Old

question 85

Multiple Choice

Dr. Heyer is a behavioral therapist working with a 10-year-old boy named Lee The boy's parents and teachers both agree that Lee is disobedient and unruly. What assessment method should Dr. Heyer use to most accurately assess the degree to which Lee is excessively active and disobedient?

• A) personality testing
• B) observation
• C) interview method
• D) questionnaire

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Definitions:

Ordinal Data

Refers to a type of data in statistics that represents categories with a meaningful order, but the differences between the categories cannot be quantified.

Interval Data

A type of numerical data in which the intervals between each value are equally split, but there is no true zero point.

Spearman's Rank-Correlation

A nonparametric measure of rank correlation that assesses the strength and direction of association between two ranked variables.

Correlation Coefficient

A measure that determines the degree to which two variables' movements are associated, ranging from -1 to 1.