Exam 4: Research Methods in the Study of Abnormal Behaviour

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

People diagnosed with schizophrenia are randomly assigned to either an attention-training group or a social skills training group. Equal numbers of males and females were in each training group. Scores on a measure of thought disorder, a prominent symptom in schizophrenia, were examined after the end of the training sessions. In addition, there was a no-schizophrenia group. This study was a(n)________________ design.

Susan is a graduate student in psychology and she has been stumped for days trying to figure out why a child she is working with misbehaves. She rereads all of her case notes and plans to observe the child the next day at school. What would help Susan make sense of all the information she has?

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:

In the case study example of the 54-year-old white Canadian male who was imprisoned for zoophilia, generalization would be difficult to make because of the prisoner's:

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.

A case study of Rebecca (a patient diagnosed with bulimia nervosa complicated by depression and alcohol abuse)presented by Hendricks and Thompson (2005)found that CBT was most effective in:

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 risk factor may be best defined as:

Of parental divorce, unemployment, and addiction, parental divorce is the most significant risk factor for physical abuse of a child.

Correlational research differs from experimental research in that correlational research

A research team is doing a study of the effectiveness of medication vs. psychotherapy for treating schizophrenia vs. bipolar disorder. Participants are randomly assigned to receive either medication or psychotherapy. Which of the following is a classificatory variable in the study?

When you are interested in doing an experiment, but one variable is a classificatory variable, you can use a mixed design.