Exam 6: Conducting 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.

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

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

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

_____ 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.

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

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.

Compare and contrast cross-sectional designs and longitudinal designs.

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

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

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 _____.

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

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

_____ 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?"

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

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

The 1995 Consumer Reports study found that

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

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 _____.

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