Exam 1: Abnormal Psychology: an Overview

A researcher interested in the health problems of people with schizophrenia interviews only those people diagnosed with the disorder who are in an inpatient facility. The most glaring weakness in this study is

What is the term for the statistical approach that calculates and then combines the effect sizes from multiple studies?

Fred refuses to speak at school, although he speaks normally at home. His therapist plans out a treatment where Fred is given a gold star every time he answers his teacher, and he can then trade in his stars for prizes. Fred begins speaking in class. The therapist then tells the teacher to stop the program for a couple of weeks. Fred stopped talking during that time. The teacher then starting giving Fred stars again, and Fred again began to talk. This is an example of

A researcher says, "These studies make it too easy for investigators to find the background factors they expect to find. However, they are more valid if we find documents like school reports that show the background factor before the disorder emerges." What kind of research strategy is the researcher referring to?

What is the most prevalent grouping of psychological disorder?

When mental disorders are short in duration, they are known as acute. When they are long in duration, they are __________ .

A major scientific problem with analogue studies is

A major finding from the National Comorbidity Survey (NCS) was that

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

Which of the following is an example of family aggregation?

What is epidemiology?

What does Monique's case best illustrate?

What is comorbidity?

Maria believes that her dead grandmother occasionally speaks to her. In deciding if Maria has a mental illness or not, which of the following is important?

In the field of abnormal psychology, what does DSM stand for?

What is the DSM and what is the proposed definition of a mental disorder for the DSM-5?

Discuss some of the difficulties involved in attempting to define abnormal behavior.

Upon deciding to study individuals with a given disorder, what is the next step that should be taken?

Describe the ABAB research design and give an example.

Discuss one disadvantage of developing a classification system for mental disorders.