If Someone You Know Discloses That He or She Is

question 143

Multiple Choice

If someone you know discloses that he or she is contemplating suicide, your goal should be to ______.

• A) try to intervene on your own
• B) get them to seek some professional help
• C) leave them alone to sort through their thoughts and feelings
• D) show them how crazy or misguided a suicide attempt would be

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Definitions:

Critical Values

Specific points on the scale of a test statistic beyond which we reject the null hypothesis in hypothesis testing.

Autocorrelation

The correlation of a signal with a delayed copy of itself, often used to analyze functions or series of values, like time series data.

Test Statistic

A value, derived from sample data, used in a hypothesis test to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis.

Durbin-Watson Statistic

A test statistic used to detect the presence of autocorrelation in the residuals from a linear regression analysis.