As a Forensic Psychologist Working for a Federal Prison System,you

question 118

Multiple Choice

As a forensic psychologist working for a federal prison system,you have been asked to design a treatment for antisocial personality disorder.You are aware that most programs have limited success at best,but you also know that there are some positive findings with regard to

• A)psychoanalytic programs that would require an inmate to see a psychiatrist five times a week.
• B)behavioral programs originally designed for the treatment of deviant sexual crimes.
• C)humanistic programs that focus on learning empathy skills.
• D)programs that stress the importance of taking all of their prescribed medicine.

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Definitions:

Population Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points in a population, calculated as the average of the squared deviations from the mean.

Sample Variance

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points in a sample, illustrating how much the data differ from the mean.

Grouped Data

Data that has been organized into categories, classes, or intervals, often to simplify analysis and find frequency distributions.

Ungrouped Data

Data that has not been organized into groups or categories and is presented in raw form.