psychopathology studies

Question 1

Watson

Answer 1

little albert - shows cc acquisition of phobias

Question 2

Gilroy

Answer 2

spider study

1. SD is effective in short term
2. and has long lasting effects

Question 3

Smith and Glass

Answer 3

meta analysis

1. 0.91 - large effect size for SD

Question 4

Choy

Answer 4

flooding was more effective than SD

Question 5

Barlow

Answer 5

flooding was equally as effective as SD

Question 6

Koster

Answer 6

depressed ppts significantly longer to respond when word was negative
shows idea of dwelling on negative but doesn’t show if negative beliefs caused or were a cause of depression

Question 7

Grazioli & Terry

Answer 7

pregnant women with high risk of post natal depression

those identified with neg beliefs more likely to develop post natal depression

Question 8

March

Answer 8

CBT 81%
drugs 81%
CBT + drugs 86%

Question 9

Cuijper’s meta analysis

Answer 9

0.71 effect size large-moderate for effectiveness of CBT

Question 10

Lewis

Answer 10

family study
37% had parents with OCD
21% had siblings with OCD
would expect to be more like 50% if due to genes
family study doesn’t separate influence of family o environment

Question 11

Nestadt’s twin study

Answer 11

concordance rates
MZ - 68%
DZ - 31%
controls for difference between environment and genes as both raised at the same time

Question 12

Fineberg

Answer 12

recurrence of symptoms
placebo - 54%
Escitalopram - 23%

Question 13

Soomro

Answer 13

17/17 studies showed SSRI better than placebo