Barbara Suffers from a Conversion Disorder and Has Recently Begun

question 10

Multiple Choice

Barbara suffers from a conversion disorder and has recently begun treatment with a Freudian therapist. What is this therapist most likely to emphasize in treating Barbara?

• A) encouraging her to recall psychologically painful events
• B) teaching her how to put her feelings into words
• C) eliminating the reinforcers for her symptoms
• D) showing her how her symptoms do not make anatomical sense

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Definitions:

Sample Variances

The measure of variability that quantifies the spread of data points in a sample dataset around the mean.

Population Variances

The measure of how data points in an entire population are spread out, calculated as the average of the squared differences from the mean.

Sample Variances

A measure of the spread or dispersion within a set of sample data, calculated as the average of the squared differences from the sample mean.

F-Distribution

A probability distribution used in analysis of variance that helps to determine if the means of several populations are equal.