Which of the Following Is a Good "Focusing" Statement

question 7

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a good "focusing" statement?

• A) "How has it been going this week?"
• B) "What does your mother think about that?"
• C) "Why do you continue to use heroin if you are so concerned about it?"
• D) "You said that you worry too much. Can you give me an example of what worries you the most?"

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Definitions:

Sampling Distribution

The distribution of probabilities for a certain statistic, originating from a random sample.

Normal Distribution

In this type of distribution, occurrences of data are more frequent near the mean and decrease in frequency as they move away from the mean, with the distribution being symmetric.

Sampling Distribution

The probability distribution of a statistic based on random samples from a population, used to estimate population parameters.

Standard Deviation

An indicator of the degree to which a dataset's values vary or are dispersed, showing the extent of deviation from the average.