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?

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 team do?

What does the prevalence of a disorder refer to?

Which of the following genetic mechanisms contributes to the underlying problems that cause the difficulties experienced by people with psychological disorders?

Why do researchers use control groups?

A confound in a study makes the results uninterpretable.What does it affect?

Professor Black is asked by one of his students to describe the meaning of a hypothesis.What should Professor Black say?

"I remember being a very shy child,keeping to myself,and reading books.As an adolescent,I became more serious and quiet.As a young adult,I became more confident and outgoing." What type of research would this kind of information be used for?

Dr.Allen is lobbying the government to start a reading program for all children who live in regions where school achievement is lower than average.What type of program would this be?

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?

Which of the following might be a situation where you observe the "allegiance effect" in a double-blind study?

A researcher studies the impact of stress on college students' exam scores.Whether the results of this study help us to understand the relationship between job performance and stress levels of real-life organizational workers is a question of which of the following?

Dr.Seto is considering using a withdrawal design as part of a single-case experiment,but she has one major concern about this method.What concern does Dr.Seto MOST likely have?

Statistical significance determines whether an observed difference between a treatment and control group is likely due to which of the following?

What does "phenotype" refer to?

Which of the following is an example of treatment outcome research?

Joe has been diagnosed by his psychiatrist as having an anxiety disorder.His psychiatrist prescribes a medication that has been found to help reduce anxiety.Joe takes the medication but his anxiety level does not improve at all.Since an anxiety medication did not work,Joe concludes that his psychiatrist must be wrong and that he,Joe,must be suffering from some other disorder.What is the problem with Joe's conclusion?

Which research design is most helpful in determining how individuals with particular disorders change over time?

According to the requirements of "informed consent," what are research participants in a blind,placebo-controlled study told?

Why are placebos used in experiments?