Which of the Following Accounts for the Longer Duration of Depression

question 16

Multiple Choice

Which of the following accounts for the longer duration of depression relative to the duration of learned helplessness effects?

• A) There are many causes for depression in addition to learned helplessness.
• B) Depressed people think about the helplessness-inducing events.
• C) Reminders of the initial helplessness event can reactivate depression.
• D) all of the above

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Definitions:

Independent Variables

Factors in an experiment that are purposely manipulated to observe their effect on dependent variables.

Durbin-Watson Statistic

A measure used in statistics to detect the presence of autocorrelation in the residuals from a regression analysis.

First-Order Autocorrelation

First-order autocorrelation is a statistical measure indicating the correlation between values in a time series and their immediate predecessors.

Durbin-Watson D Statistic

A statistical tool designed to determine the existence of first-lag autocorrelation in the residuals of a regression analysis.