Mastery Quizes 3/4 Flashcards
Which of the following are generated by theories?
Hypotheses.
Which research method would be most useful in generating hypotheses about the cause of a newly discovered, rare form of abnormality?
A case study.
Dr. Bradley has been conducting a case study of Brenda P., a woman with dissociative identity disorder. Which of the following statements by Dr. Bradley is a misuse of the case study method?
“Brenda, a woman with dissociative identity disorder, was sexually abused as a child. Therefore, all individuals with multiple personality disorder must have been abuse victims.”
Professor Jones has observed a correlation between students sitting in the front of the room and getting better grades in her classes. In order to conduct an “experiment” on this,
Professor Jones could-assign students randomly to seats.
If the correlation between two variables is zero, this means that-
there is no relationship between them.
The standard for suggesting that a result is statistically significant is if the chances are less than __________ in 100 that it occurred by chance.
.5
Directionality is best addressed by
using a longitudinal design.
Epidemiology is the study of
the rates and correlates of disorders in a population.
In a study where participants are assigned to one of two treatment groups (medication versus cognitive therapy), the type of treatment received is the-independent variable.
Diagnostic systems allow clinicians and scientists to:communicate accurately with one another about cases and research.
To test the impact of therapy on depression, a researcher tells a random half of his subjects (falsely) that they failed an exam. He then conducts one hour of therapy with the “failure” subjects. One week later the subjects given false feedback are no more depressed than the control group, so the researcher concludes the treatment was effective. This would be described as which type of research?
an analogue study
One would expect items on a depression assessment measure to have- internal consistency reliability.
Jim was given an intelligence test in March and re-administered the same test one year later. His score both times was the same. This indicates that the intelligence test has-
high test-retest reliability
The highest priority of the DSM-5 is that it
is useful to clinicians.
There were ___ axes in the DSM-IV-TR while ___ are used in the DSM
5 -b. 5, 0
Which of the following is a risk of having too many diagnoses?-a. The risk of fitting into too many diagnostic categories., Lack of reliability between diagnostic clinicians.,. Externalization of diagnoses by clients.,. All of these are risks of having too many diagnoses.
All of these are risks of having too many diagnoses.
The Life Events and Difficulties Schedule (LEDS) has led researchers to conclude that
Life events are robust predictors of several psychological and medical symptoms.
Which of the following is a structured interview?
SCID
