Exam 4: Research Methods in the Study of Abnormal Behaviour

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 gender of the participants in the study is the

In an ABAB design, A represents baseline measurement and B represents the addition of a manipulation.

Directionality is best addressed by:

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

What is the value of double-blind procedures? What are the limits to this procedure in psychopathology research that does not involve medication?

External validity is established through

Even if a correlation is statistically significant, it may not be meaningful.

A correlational study by Tonmyr and colleagues (2005)found that childhood sexual abuse (CSA)and physical abuse were associated with:

The presence of random assignment suggests that the ________ method is being used.

Jessica designs a study to investigate differences between patients with eating disorders and people without eating disorders. She constructs a self-report questionnaire with items related to problematic eating behaviours. Based on her research, she indicates that eating disorders can be defined by scores above 35 on her test instrument. This approach is best described as:

In order for the 1990 Ontario Mental Health Supplement Study to identify the strongest predictors of later mental health problems, what type of research design did the researchers use?

A(n)________ study involves the question of whether distressed college students are similar enough to patients diagnosed with depression to warrant their use in research.

How did Université Laval researchers (Bujold et al., 1994)initially test their cognitive-behavioural treatment of gambling?

Incidence refers to

According to the results of the 1990 Ontario Mental Health Supplement study, the biggest early risk factor for a subsequent mental disorder is:

McMillan and colleagues (2009)studied cortisol responses to standard psychological stressor in a group of female youths exposed to childhood maltreatment, relative to a control group. The attenuated response from maltreated youth, as compared to a typical increase of cortisol in the control group, was interpreted as:

In an experimental design, the control group is the group that

According to the results of the 1990 Ontario Mental Health Supplement study, the biggest early risk factor for a subsequent mental disorder is:

You are doing an experiment on the effects of traumatic information on memory. You test participants on Monday. Tuesday, there is a large storm and many participants in your study must evacuate their homes temporarily. You then test these same participants the next week on Monday. The results you get

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