Bipolar Disorder

question 121

Multiple Choice

Bipolar disorder

• A) appears to occur independent of external events.
• B) may be triggered by a traumatic event and maintained through some psychological mechanism.
• C) is seen in a majority of adults who experienced severe early childhood trauma.
• D) is diagnosed most frequently in geographic areas of extreme temperatures.

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Definitions:

Rejection Region

The range of values for which the null hypothesis is not considered probable and therefore rejected in hypothesis testing.

Population Variances

A measure of the distribution of data points in a population, indicating how spread out the data values are from the mean.

Normally Distributed

Describes a data set that follows a normal distribution, where most measurements are concentrated around the mean, creating a bell curve shape.

Level of Significance

The threshold below which a p-value is considered statistically significant, indicating the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true.