Exam 5: Research Methods In The Study of Abnormal Behaviour

Janet wants to be able study phenomena and draw broad conclusions; which design is least likely to help her achieve her goal?

Which of the following is most likely to be a statistically significant finding?

One advantage to qualitative research in clinical psychology is that it:

Prevalence refers to:

Epidemiology seeks to establish:

Statistical significance in research suggests the results are:

Causal relationships are best identified by which design?

Pennebaker's experiment on providing written accounts of traumatic events showed that expressing emotion had a ________ effect.

External validity is established through:

The main difference between a case study and qualitative research is:

The word "science" comes from the Latin word "scire" which means:

Several studies have found a correlation between schizophrenia and family conflict. Which of the following explanations illustrates the directionality problem?

Dr. Less collected data showing that depressed people were less interested in interacting with non-depressed people. She concluded that their depression had caused them to withdraw from people. However, later research showed that depressed people had not interacted with non-depressed people even before they became depressed. Dr. Less failed to consider ___________ problems.

Scientists sometimes come up with theories "out of the blue."

Which of the following findings is most likely to be statistically significant?

Among the current generation of Ontario's First Nations youth (12-17 years old), approximately, ____ of boys and ____of girls reported some form of sexual abuse, rates which are much higher than non-aboriginal children.

McMillan and colleagues (2009) studied cortisol responses to standard psychological stressor in a group of female youths exposed to childhood maltreatment, relative to a control group. The attenuated response from maltreated youth, as compared to a typical increase of cortisol in the control group, was interpreted as:

The accumulation and tabulation of the overall results of several empirical studies into a combined investigation involves conducting:

Mary, who has trichotillomania (chronic hair pulling) is using an ABAB design to see if she pulls more hair while watching T.V. She watched T.V. during dinner for four weeks and pulled at least ten hairs a day for the four weeks. Then she left the T.V. off for four weeks and pulled only one hair per day for the four weeks. In the next step of this design, Mary should:

Jean's parents are both alcoholic and are going through a divorce. Jean is likely to be: