Exam 1: Introduction and Methods of Research

In a study on alcohol and aggressive behavior, subjects are randomly assigned to one of two groups. One group receives real alcohol while the other group receives tonic water Which tastes identical to real alcohol. Although the researchers know which group got The real alcohol, none of the subjects know. This study is designed as a ______ placebo-control study.

One way scientists control for subjects' expectations in experimental research involving medication is by using ______.

The principle of informed consent precludes the use of naturalistic observation.

Which of the following is one of the steps in the scientific method?

Twins who develop from separate egg cells that were fertilized simultaneously, who share 50% of their genetic heritage, are known as ______ twins.

Zorba is constantly depressed. According to Hippocrates' theory, Zorba has an excess of ______.

The first asylums in Europe were ______.

Fear of witches reached its height during the Middle Ages.

A scientific method of study that examines the relationships between factors or variables expressed in statistical terms is the _______ method.

By the mid-1950s, the population in American mental hospitals had risen to about ______.

Between the 1950s and 1990s, the mental hospital population across the United States has ______.

According to the 1999 Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health, what percentage of American adults receives some form of help for mental health problems each year?

The research method in which behavior is observed in the field, where it happens, is the ______ method.

Experiments are said to have ______ validity when observed changes in the dependent variable(s) can be causally related to the independent or treatment variable.

As compared to married heterosexual couples, gays in close, committed relationships have been found to ______.

The philosophy of treatment that emerged from the efforts of Frenchmen like Philippe Pinel is called ______ therapy.

Unfounded ideas, or false beliefs which have no basis in fact, are considered ______.

Sociocultural theorists look for the causes of abnormal behavior in the failures of society.

Twins who originated from a single fertilized egg cell, who share 100 percent of their genetic make-up are known as ______ twins.

A theory is a precise prediction about behavior that is examined in an experiment.