Exam 5: Research Methods In The Study of Abnormal Behaviour

"About 2% of adults have obsessive-compulsive disorder." This is a statement about the __________ of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

In an experiment, statistical significance is tested by dividing:

Dr. Roberts noted that whenever her student, Ted, was given praise for reading, he read more. She then stated that reinforcement increases his behaviour. Using this framework, ______ is a theoretical concept, whereas _______ was derived from the theory to illustrate the concept.

Research has identified parental divorce, parental unemployment, and parental addiction as risk factors for physical abuse of children in Canada. Are all three equal risks? How do the risk factors interact with each other?

A correlation of .98 between X and Y would indicate a:

In a study on effectiveness of therapy in treating depression, participants are randomly assigned to groups so that 10 receive cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and 10 are assigned to a no-treatment control condition. The outcome improvement scores for participants in the CBT group are quite different from each other (e.g., some had minimal improvement scores, while others showed large benefits). This discrepancy is referred to as:

The more intelligent a person is, the higher grades he or she receives in school. This finding comes from which type of research?

What is the independent variable in the following experiment? Professor Apollo believes that when people try to block certain thoughts, the thoughts are more intrusive. She randomly assigns participants to two groups; one that must try to prevent thoughts, and one that can think of anything they wish.

Chris Sizemore, better known as Eve, claimed to have ________ personalities.

Dr. Lee has been treating someone with an unusual combination of symptoms. He notes that there is no published research on such a combination of symptoms, and considers developing a case study. How would Dr. Lee conduct this study?

Dr. Wilhelm randomly assigned 50 depressed patients (half women and half men) to two groups for treatment. One group received medication, and the other received cognitive therapy. Ratings of the depression level of the participants were taken before and after treatment. The type of treatment received (medication vs. cognitive therapy) is the:

The case, The Three Faces of Eve, was controversial because:

Experiments allow us to determine causality.

A risk factor may be best defined as:

What was especially unique about the 54-year-old white Canadian male who was imprisoned for zoophilia was that:

Men and women were compared for their levels of disgust reactions. This would be a _________ study.

When conducting a study on the effects of different medications in the treatment of depression, if the individual dispensing the medication does not know which medication they are giving, and the patient is unaware of which medication is being received, the study is called:

Explain the importance of theory in research on psychopathology. How does theory guide the research process? Discuss, in particular, how theory informs the decisions for formulating hypotheses, designing independent variables, and select dependent variables.

The case in which two boys were locked in separate cribs and forced to wear diapers over a 10-year period occurred in:

A double-blind procedure is when one group is given a placebo and the other is given an actual drug.