Exam 4: Research Methods in the Study of Abnormal Behaviour

"Approximately 1500 new cases of AIDS were diagnosed in 1988 in San Francisco." This is an estimate of the ________________ of AIDS.

The accumulation and tabulation of the overall results of several empirical studies into a combined investigation involves conducting:

"The primary problem is an unmeasureable unconscious anger at his mother." What makes this statement unscientific?

The case study method was particularly useful for __________, who proposed a new diagnosis of __________ from the observations made.

Earls and Lalumière (2002)conducted an in-depth study of a 54-year-old white male who was serving a 5-year prison sentence for animal cruelty. The researchers used:

Pennebaker's experiment on providing written accounts of traumatic events showed that expressing emotion had a ________ effect.

A strong correlation tells us that one variable causes a second variable.

According to researchers, child maltreatment is a

A psychoanalyst observes that her patient avoids talking about a certain topic and infers that there is a repressed conflict. This is an example of:

You have created a new type of therapy for depression, but you are not sure if it will work for all types of depression. How would you design a study to test it and know if it's good for all people with depression or only some?

The term science refers to both a method and a goal.

According to Ladouceur and colleagues, the core cognitive error of pathological gamblers is their misconception about:

in 2009, Liu et al. (2009)examined whether experiences of current emotional maltreatment predicted the development of new episodes of depression in vulnerable young adults followed for 2.5 years. This type of research design is called:

There is no relationship between social class and schizophrenia. What types of research would lead to such a conclusion?

Case studies can be very helpful for

Statistical significance in research suggests the results are

Butler and colleagues (2006)argue that meta-analyses can be made more meaningful and informative if the results take into account:

Which of the following is most likely to be a statistically significant finding?

Causal relationships are best identified by which design?

Meta-analyses offer an objective look at complicated data.