Exam 14: Analogue Research: Maximizing Experimental Control

In the context of clients or participants in analogue research, which of the following scenarios is most likely to have a relatively low degree of resemblance to real-life counseling?

Analogue research is easier and less time consuming than other research designs, and this makes it the best methodological strategy.

Debate over the utility of analogue methodology ceased after Bordin's (1965) proposal for "acceptable simplifications."

Seth, a researcher, is studying counseling trainees' multicultural case conceptualization. One of the cases in this study involves an Asian American male client who stated that he had shamed his family because he did not pursue a career in medicine. This scenario is an example of a _____ case.

The hallmark of analogue research is control of the _____.

In the context of analogue research, which of the following is true of client variables being generalizable to real-life counseling?

In analogue designs, it is possible to eliminate or control variables extraneous to the particular research problem.

Experimental procedures such as randomly assigning clients to placebo groups or to waiting-list control groups can cause problems in real-life counseling.

Analogue research allows for a great deal of situational control by enabling a researcher to manipulate one or more independent variables, to eliminate or hold extraneous variables constant, and to use random assignment.

Analogue methodology enables an experimenter to achieve a high degree of specificity in the operational definitions of a variable.

In the context of analogue research, which of the following variable pertains to both the client and the counselor in a counseling situation?

According to some researchers, findings from analogue research tend to lack _____.

Variables pertaining to clients or participants are never considered when evaluating the generalizability of particular analogue methodologies within counseling.

In analogue research, the power of the experimental controls may result in the loss of external validity of the research findings.

Identify a variable that pertains to the counseling process in analogue research.

One of the strengths of analogue studies is that they possess a high degree of _____.

Analogue methodology lacks precision-not only in terms of the variables under examination, but also in terms of experimental procedures.

An advantage of analogue methodology is often the reduction of practical and ethical obstacles in experimentally examining some aspect of the counseling process.

In which of the following scenarios is intervention, a variable pertaining to counseling process and setting in analogue research, most likely to have a relatively high degree of resemblance to real-life counseling in terms of generalizability?

In analogue researches, real-world constraints such as financial limits and unavailability of participants can be substantially reduced by using _____.