Exam 4: Research Methods

Your psychology professor is conducting research and desperately needs more research participants because the existing subjects keep running from the building screaming.She tells the class that everyone must be a subject to get a grade in the class and that there are no exceptions.In terms of ethical treatment of research subjects, what would you say about her policy?

Describe the experiment as it is used in research.Explain the procedures, advantages, and disadvantages of the experiment as a research method.

What is the highest priority when deciding if research is ethical, according to the Tri-Council Policy Statement for the Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans?

What is the purpose of a control group in experimental research?

Unlike her mother, Mary has bright red hair; however, Mary's maternal grandmother has the same colour of hair.In other words, grandmother and granddaughter look alike.What is exemplified by the fact that Mary does not look like her mother but does look like her maternal grandmother?

In prevention research, what are the two most frequently used methods for examining psychopathology across time?

A researcher is studying how people of different ages tend to experience anxiety.The researcher interviews anxious adolescents, young adults, individuals in their 30s and 50s, and those over 70.What do the individuals in each age group represent?

A researcher interested in understanding the relationship between panic attacks and alcohol abuse might choose to study the effects of anxiety induction in the lab on how much alcohol research participants choose to drink.Which statement would be most accurate, given this information?

Which term refers to the study of treatment interventions that may help avert later problems?

Genetic linkage analysis has not yet provided the types of answers scientists hope for in terms of understanding the specific genetic influences of psychopathology.Why is this so?

Single-case experimental designs use several strategies to improve their internal validity.Which of the following is one of these strategies?

Family studies are often used to help determine whether a psychological disorder has a genetic component.Which of the following patterns is typical for a disorder that is influenced by genetics?

In the early 20th century, many people displayed symptoms of a disorder similar to organic psychosis.Most of these people were also poor, which led to speculation about class inferiority.Goldberger found correlations between the disorder and diet and identified the cause of the disorder as a deficiency of the B vitamin niacin.What was this research study an early example of?

A researcher studying a family with a history of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) records data for each person in the family with OCD and for those who have been diagnosed with OCD in the past.The researcher is interested in whether family members with OCD share any other inherited characteristics.What type of research is being conducted?

Consider the correlation between the amount of time university students study and their heights in centimetres.What kind of correlation would this indicate?

Brown and Finn (1982) found that attitudes regarding alcohol were somewhat different for 12-, 15-, and 17-year-olds.All measures were taken during the same year from children of different ages.What kind of research method is this?

One of the major problems with the case study method is that it is too easy to make false conclusions based on which of the following?

The more a researcher controls internal validity by restricting the study to participants who are similar to one another, the less of which type of validity will the study generally contain?

What are cohort effects?

Barlow's research team had reason to celebrate.A similar team at another university had been able to replicate their findings.What did the second teamdo?