Exam 1: Abnormal Psychology: an Overview

1-91.In a study of the effects of ice cream on mood,the ice cream can be described as what?

1-18.All of the following are disadvantages of classifying and diagnosing mental disorders EXCEPT

1-75.Which of the following may be safely inferred when a significant negative correlation is found between variables x and y?

Describe the retrospective and prospective research designs.What are the benefits and problems of these designs?

3-11.Discuss the limitations of self-report data.

1-23.What is a culture-specific disorder?

1-96.A psychologist wishes to test the hypothesis that the experience of chronic physical pain can cause clinical depression,but the Ethics Committee of his university won't allow him to conduct a study in which he inflicts pain on the subjects.What kind of research design might best allow the psychologist to test this hypothesis while circumventing the committee's objection?

1-59.________ are more or less plausible ideas used to explain something (e.g.,a behavior)and can be tested using research methods.

What does Monique's case best illustrate?

1-76.Dr.Gordon finds that heroin-addicted adults almost always smoked cigarettes and drank alcohol when they were young adolescents.Knowing this strong association we can conclude that

Briefly discuss why research in abnormal psychology is important.

3-10.What is sampling and why is it important?

1-79.It has been demonstrated that those who were prenatally exposed to the influenza virus are more likely to develop schizophrenia.In other words,prenatal exposure to the influenza virus is ________ correlated with developing schizophrenia.

_______________are automatic beliefs concerning other people based on little information.

1-82.Which of the following terms is defined as the size of the association between two variables independent of the sample size?

1-84.Which research approach requires subjects to recall the past?

What are the benefits of classifying mental disorders?

1-32.What type of prevalence estimate tends to be lowest?

______________is used to study questions that would not be possible to study with human subjects.

3-12.What is an analogue study?