Exam 5: Research Methods In The Study of Abnormal Behaviour

Which of the following would likely produce a negative correlation?

Dr. Booth claims to have discovered a way to hypnotize people that eliminates their depression following one treatment. When other people try to use his method and find their clients remain depressed, he says they must not have been doing things correctly. Dr. Booth's treatment does not seem to be:

Results from the 1990 Ontario Mental Health Supplement study indicate that the strongest risk factor for having 2 or more mental health disorders is:

Analogue experiments can serve as a stand-in for an otherwise unethical study.

Earls and Lalumière (2002) conducted an in-depth study of a 54-year-old white male who was serving a 5-year prison sentence for animal cruelty. The researchers used:

Dr. Hall found a positive correlation between depression and child abuse; depressed mothers were more likely to abuse their children. Which of the following explanations illustrates the third-variable problem?

To test the impact of therapy on depression, a researcher tells a random half of his participants (falsely) that they failed an exam. He then conducts one hour of therapy with the "failure" participants. One week later the participants given false feedback are no more depressed than the control group, so the researcher concludes the treatment was effective. This would be described as which type of research?

Case studies are useful for:

Case studies allow us to make definitive claims about the causes of mental illness.

According to the 2003 Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect, the most important reason why First Nation children come to the attention of child welfare personnel is:

Theories are used to generate hypotheses, which are then tested and proven true or false.

In an ABAB design, A represents baseline measurement and B represents the addition of a manipulation.

What is the value of double-blind procedures? What are the limits to this procedure in psychopathology research that does not involve medication?

Dr. Hauser hypothesized that depression is related to stress, such that people who are more depressed are also more stressed. Which of the following correlations between depression and stress would best confirm her hypothesis?

Mixed designs are combinations of:

Mixed designs are a type of experiment.

There is no relationship between social class and schizophrenia. What types of research would lead to such a conclusion?

in 2009, Liu et al. (2009) examined whether experiences of current emotional maltreatment predicted the development of new episodes of depression in vulnerable young adults followed for 2)5 years. This type of research design is called:

Dr. Hyper treated 20 patients using a new therapeutic procedure. An outside observer rated the children's activity level on a laboratory task before and after the treatment; 80% of the children decreased their activity level following treatment, and Dr. Hyper concluded that the procedure was highly effective. In Dr. Hyper's experiment, what is the independent variable?

A research team found that men who did not exercise had a higher rate of heart disease. Which of the following explanations illustrates the third-variable problem?