A case history is a detailed description of a single individual, often used in psychology and medicine to document the presenting symptoms, diagnoses, and treatment outcomes of a particular patient. It is not the same as an experimental design that requires a control group, inferential statistics, and manipulation of variables to test cause-and-effect relationships.

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A Case History

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A case history

A) includes an experimental group and a control group.
B) necessarily includes the use of inferential statistics.
C) establishes the strength of the relationship between two variables.
D) is a detailed description of a single individual.

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