1-72The Research on the Association Between Borderline Personality Disorder and Childhood

question 58

Multiple Choice

1-72.The research on the association between borderline personality disorder and childhood sexual abuse

• A)proves child sexual abuse is the leading cause of borderline personality disorder.
• B)are problematic - the abuse most likely is occurring with other factors that might be more important.
• C)has shown that the reports of sexual abuse were mostly false reports.
• D)suggests that some genetic component underlies both the disorder in the child and the parents' tendency to abuse.

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Definitions:

Factor A

A variable manipulated or monitored to determine its effects on an outcome in an experiment.

Critical Value

A threshold value that separates the region where the null hypothesis is rejected from the region where it is not rejected, based on the chosen significance level.

Df

Short for Degrees of Freedom, it represents the number of independent pieces of information available to estimate another piece of information.

F-Ratio

A statistical value used to compare variances in analyses of variance (ANOVA), indicating the ratio of systematic variance to error variance.