In Response to the Strict Civil Commitment Laws of the 1970s

question 83

Multiple Choice

In response to the strict civil commitment laws of the 1970s and 1980s, some states enacted legal reforms that

• A)shortened hospital stays.
• B)reduced the number of admissions.
• C)changed the status under which patients were committed.
• D)eliminated the doctrine of parens patriae.

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Definitions:

Normal Distribution

A symmetric probability distribution centered around the mean, indicating that events close to the mean occur more often than those at a distance.

α

Denotes the level of significance in hypothesis testing, representing the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true.

Z Statistic

A type of standard score that indicates the number of standard deviations a datum is from the mean of a distribution, used in significance testing.