Exam 4: Research Methods for Studying Mental Disorders

What is the role of replication in psychological research?

Prevalence is to ____ as incidence is to ____.

Discuss the different research strategies employed by investigators to gather information about disorders and their treatment.

A coherent group of principles and hypotheses that explain some aspect of an area of study is a(n) ____.

What type of study will yield information on whether or not persons who were abused as children develop mental disorders in adulthood?

Base rates obtained from a normal control group in response to a psychotic-traits questionnaire suggest that ____.

In a study of the effectiveness of cognitive therapy on anxiety, fifty anxious patients are divided into two groups. One group gets cognitive therapy, the other a fake kind of therapy that should have no benefit. However, the patients can tell that the second form of treatment is a fake. The study is weak because ____.

Idiographic research is most effective ____.

Conclusions of the research conducted by Moos (2005) and Bootzin and Bailey (2005) suggests that ____.

Which of the following is an example of an operational definition?

Carmen has been diagnosed with major depression. Her twin sister Consuelo does not have the disorder. When asked if their parents suffer from major depression, researchers are likely to reduce bias in reporting by ____.

Which type of study is especially valuable for studying rare phenomena and for evaluating the course of a disorder and its treatment?

In biological research, ____ are conducted to determine if a specific substance has an effect on an individual's behavior.

In an experiment, the ____ is as similar as possible to the experimental group except that it is not exposed to the independent variable.

Unlike the case study, the single-participant experiment ____.

Suppose the results of a correlational study examining the association between poverty and psychotic behavior show a correlation coefficient of r = 0.80. One erroneous interpretation of the results is that poverty causes psychotic behavior. A correct response is that ____.

One thing that's true about correlational studies is that they ____.

A researcher conducting a meta-analysis is accused of providing only one side of a story even though he accurately reported the information from the studies he used. How would this be possible?

A dilemma of experimental research is that research designs that produce high internal validity may have problems with ____.

A particular concern about the usefulness of single-subject designs is ____.