Exam 3: Research

 Questions about the nature and distribution of childhood disorders are frequently addressed through ____.

 Asking college students to describe their childhood relationships with peers is an example of a ____ design.

 Explain the benefits and limitations of the case study. Why is the case study important in abnormal child psychology?

 The fact that vulnerable populations often feel pressure to participate in research studies is a factor relating to which ethical concern?

 _____ rates refer to all cases of a disorder, whether new or previously existing, that are observed during a specified time period.

 Qualitative data are typically collected by ____.

 ____ validity refers to the degree of correlation between measures that are not expected to be related to one another.

 Questions about ________ are complicated because what qualifies varies according to the variables of interest as well as the causal chain.

 ______ rates refer to the extent to which new cases of a disorder appear over a specified time period.

 Qualitative research ____.

 The fact that effects of parental conflict and divorce may not surface immediately but rather years later is an example of ____.

 To know if a treatment would truly be useful in community settings, researchers should focus on treatment ____.

 A researcher investigating the relationship between maternal distress and child conduct problems found that maternal distress was related to disciplinary strategies toward the child, which in turn were related to child conduct problems. In this study, disciplinary strategies are a ____.

 The process, mechanism, or means through which a variable produces a particular outcome is known as a(n) ____ variable.

 Which statement about case studies is false?

 How can qualitative and quantitative research methods be used in complementary ways?

 Why is it difficult to use true experimentation to study child psychopathology?

 When would qualitative research be preferred over quantitative research?

 In an A-B-A-B design, the "B" stands for ____.

 Treatment ____ refers to whether or not a treatment can produce changes under well-controlled conditions.