Which Statement About Abnormal Psychology Is Accurate

question 58

Multiple Choice

Which statement about abnormal psychology is accurate?

• A)Abnormal psychology seeks to describe, explain, predict, and modify unusual behaviors.
• B)Although abnormal psychology has made several gains in the past 20 years, it is not yet a scientific field of study.
• C)The subject matter of abnormal psychology is restricted to extremely bizarre behavior.
• D)Most diagnoses of abnormality are based on two or three basic behavioral factors.

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Definitions:

Ordinal Data

A type of categorical data that has a meaningful order or ranking among the categories but not a measurable distance between them.

Significance Level

A threshold in hypothesis testing that determines the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true, typically denoted by alpha.

Kruskal-Wallis Test

A nonparametric method for testing whether samples originate from the same distribution, often used when comparing three or more groups.

Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test

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