In the Treatment of Depression, the Benefits of Drugs Usually

question 198

Multiple Choice

In the treatment of depression, the benefits of drugs usually __________ but the benefits of psychotherapy usually __________.

• A) last longer...cost less money
• B) last longer...emerge sooner
• C) help a larger number of people...cost less money
• D) emerge sooner...last longer

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how spread out the data points are from the mean.

Normally Distributed

A distribution where probabilities are mirrored on either side of the mean, illustrating higher frequency of events near the average.

Life Expectancy

The average number of years that an individual or a certain group of individuals is expected to live, based on statistical averages.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variability of a dataset relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the numbers are.