As Reactions to the Increasing Applied/clinical Orientation of APA Membership

question 36

Multiple Choice

As reactions to the increasing applied/clinical orientation of APA membership:

• A)a group of scientifically oriented psychologists formed the Psychonomic Society
• B)the American psychological Society was formed by a group of scientific psychologists in 1988
• C)funding for clinical psychology decreased
• D)a group of scientifically oriented psychologists formed the Psychonomic Society and the American Psychological Society was formed by a group of scientific psychologists in 1988

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Definitions:

Population Spearman Correlation

A measure of the strength and direction of the monotonic relationship between paired data in a population using ranked values.

Sample Statistic

A numerical measure that describes an aspect of a sample taken from a population, such as the mean or variance.

Friedman Test

A statistical test that doesn't rely on parameter assumptions to identify variations in treatments over several trials.

Sign Test

A nonparametric test used to determine if there is a median difference between paired observations.