Exam 6: Conducting Research in Clinical Psychology

According to the textbook, which of the following is NOT a question clinical psychologist should ask themselves when designing research studies?

______ tend to be held in high regard by researchers who prefer the idiographic approach over the nomothetic approach.

______ variables are those variables in an experiment that are expected to change as a result of changes in the variable manipulated by the researcher.

______ variables are those variables in an experiment that are manipulated by the experimenter.

What is a meta-analysis?

What are the two main areas in which clinical psychologists conduct research?

Compare and contrast cross-sectional designs and longitudinal designs.

Dr. Grant is a practicing clinical psychologist who is thinking about using a new treatment for anxiety with patients in his practice. If he is most concerned with how this new treatment works in the real world, Dr. Grant will be most interested in published studies that discuss the treatment's ______.

Compared to effectiveness studies, efficacy studies of psychotherapy outcome generally have ______.

Which of the following is NOT a step in the experimental method?

A researcher planning to follow a group of depressed patients over a 20-year period would likely be using a ______ design.

______ refers to the generalizability of the result of a scientific study or the extent to which the same finding is applicable to different settings and populations.

What is one APA ethical standard that applies to research in clinical psychology?

In ______, researchers test the outcome of a manualized therapy on a particular diagnosis. Participants are randomly assigned to treatment or nontreatment groups, and target variables are assessed at the outset and end of the study.

Compare and contrast efficacy and effectiveness studies of psychotherapy outcome.

Who published a 1952 review of psychotherapy stating (erroneously) that psychotherapy did not work?

The ABAB design is an example of a(n) ______.

The 1995 Consumer Reports study found that ______.

In a(n) ______ design, the researcher cannot always assign people randomly to conditions, make particular manipulations, or test certain hypotheses due to ethical, practical, or other constraints.

Clinical psychologists may develop, validate, or expand the use of psychological instruments such as the MMPI-2 and the WAIS-IV. Such activity is an example of ______.