Chapter 8 Flashcards
Death and dealing with death
Death
Is universal and unavoidable
It arouses strong feelings in individual’s
How people cope with death
Kubler-Ross 5 stages of dying 1. Denail Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance
Grief as a process
Numbness Yearning and searching Disorganization and despair Reorganization of behavior Immediate grief- reality is not totally acceptable until corpse is seen Delayed grief Chronic grief
Correctional study
Yield information about degree of relationship between two variables
Cross-sectional and longitudinal study
Investigators study a group of people with at least two different age groups to determine the possible differences
Longitudinal studies yield information that cross-sectional studies cannot because they assess the same people over time
Experimental design
A comparison of at least two groups often referred to as an experimental group and a control group
Ex post facto design
A quasi-experimental study
Resembles an experiment but differs in other ways
Both have contrasting groups but ex post facto design do not involve the manipulation of independent variables
Theoretical model
Scientific theory is a set of related assumptions that allow
A useful theory should
1. Generate research both descriptive research and hypothesis testing
2. Organize and explain the observation derived from research and make them intelligable
3. Serve as a guide to action permitting practitioner to predict behavior
The role of psychometrics in research
Reliability - test retest reliability - inter rater reliability - coefficient or percentage Validity - predictive validity - criterion validity
Placebo
An inactive substance or condition that has the appearance of an a give treatment and that may cause participants to improve or change because of their beliwf in the placebo efficacy
