Exam 6: Conducting Research in Clinical Psychology

The growing popularity of Amazon Mechanical Turk, or MTurk, is an example of ______.

A(n) ______ design is often used by clinical psychologists when they cannot adequately access the target population or situation, so they approximate it to the extent possible. For example, they may ask participants to imagine themselves in a particular situation.

______ significance in an efficacy or effectiveness study refers to how two groups differ in real-world terms. It answers the question, "Is there a meaningful difference between the groups?"

Reading a single review of a movie can be informative, but reading a synthesis of many reviews of the same movie can be much more informative about the effect the movie had across many individuals. This notion is analogous to the research strategy known as ______.

In short, the ______ of a form of therapy is how well it works "in the lab," where it is practiced according to manualized methods.

______ involve a thorough and detailed examination of one person or situation.

The 1995 Consumer Reports survey regarding psychotherapy outcome as an example of a(n) ______ study.

Which of these statements is NOT consistent with ethical standards of the most recent edition of the APA ethical code?

______ refers to the success of a therapy in actual clinical settings in which client problems may be diagnostically complex.

Dr. Smithton initially creates a new PTSD treatment under highly controlled laboratory conditions. He then shares the treatment with practitioners who subsequently implement the treatment with real-world patients. The practitioners report that Dr. Smithton's PTSD treatment is very helpful for their patients. The benefit the practitioners' patients experienced seems to support the ______ of Dr. Smithton's treatment.

______ refers to the extent to which change in the dependent variable is due solely to change in the independent variable.

In a(n) ______ design, participants in different conditions receive entirely different treatments.

A study examining a psychotherapy's success in an actual clinical setting is measuring the therapy's ______.

Another phrase for "generalizability" is ______.

______ designs examine changes in a participant or group across time, often over many years.

______ validity refers to the generalizability of a study's results or the extent to which the study's findings hold true across different settings and populations.

______ variables are those variables in a study that are manipulated by the experimenter.

In ______ trials, 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.

______ refers to the success of a particular therapy in a controlled study conducted with clients who were chosen according to particular study criteria.

______ significance in an efficacy or effectiveness study refers to a numerically significant difference between two groups. It is measured quantitatively.