Complete the Following Statement

question 2

Multiple Choice

Complete the following statement. According to the American Psychiatric Association (2013) , the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5) defines a mental disorder as

• A) a syndrome characterised by clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behaviour.
• B) a collection of psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning.
• C) a socially deviant set of behaviours (political, religious, or sexual) that results in conflicts between the individual and society.
• D) reflecting an expectable or culturally approved responses to a common stressor or loss, such as the death of a loved one.

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Definitions:

Nominal Data

Represents data that can be categorized but not ranked or ordered numerically.

Interval Data

A type of numerical data that has meaningful differences between values and a true zero point.

Ordinal Data

Describes a type of data which is categorized into ordered but not necessarily equally spaced categories.

Null Hypothesis

A statement used in statistics that proposes no significant difference or effect.