Patricia Is Overweight and Recently Retired from Teaching

question 105

Multiple Choice

Patricia is overweight and recently retired from teaching. She has been under extreme pressure since her spouse died and has suffered several small strokes. In addition, she is finding it difficult to organize and plan normal activities and is forgetting the names of her close friends. Which of the following is Patricia most likely experiencing?

• A) Alzheimer's disease
• B) Vascular neurocognitive disease
• C) Parkinson's disease
• D) Dementia due to Huntington's disease

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Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values.

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The value from the t-distribution that is associated with a specified level of significance for a two-tailed test.

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Alternative Hypothesis

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