Exam 4: Research Methods in the Study of Abnormal Behaviour

Which of the following is an example of nomothetic research?

Professor Jones observed that students giving class reports are more likely to stutter and perspire if more of their course grade is based on their report. He attributes this to "anxiety." In this example "anxiety" is a

A confound occurs when you forget to randomly assign participants to groups.

In the field of psychopathology, what is the most common use of the experiment?

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

In a single-subject ABAB design, ABAB refers to:

Dr. Hyper treated 20 patients using a new therapeutic procedure. An outside observer rated the children's activity level on a laboratory task before and after the treatment; 80% of the children decreased their activity level following treatment, and Dr. Hyper concluded that the procedure was highly effective. Which of the following is a likely a confound in Dr. Hyper's experiment?

When an experimenter can confidently state that the findings from an experiment were due to the independent variable, and not due to other uncontrolled factors, the research is called

Which statement is true regarding correlation?

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.

If a researcher were to compare the relationship between school grades and conduct problems, then this would be a _________ study.

Case studies allow us to make definitive claims about the causes of mental illness.

A theorist proposed that anorexia was caused by early child sexual abuse. Dr. Firestorm demonstrated that her anorexic patient had never been sexually abused. This is an example of one important use of which method?

Researchers went door to door conducting structured diagnostic interviews to determine how common particular psychiatric diagnoses were. Which type of research was this?

Single-subject experimental research and case studies are the same thing.

Classificatory variables refer to factors about a person that can be changed.

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.

If a researcher obtained a negative correlation between a measure of anxiety and a measure of test performance, this would mean that as anxiety goes up, test scores

Experiments allow us to determine causality.

Shawn is a graduate student in psychology and is eager to start his first clinical placement. Which journal might be the most helpful for him to read?