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A psychologist reports a single case of a disorder, detailing the person's feelings and responses. This
research strategy is
a. very strong and widely used in abnormal psychology.
b. rarely used in abnormal psychology because few people are willing to examine their own lives closely.
c. weak because it rarely provides information we can generalize to others with the disorder.
d. weak because it confuses correlational data with experimental data.
c. weak because it rarely provides information we can generalize to others with the disorder.
Carl is asked to provide information about his drinking. Despite the fact that he has had several arrests
for driving while intoxicated, Carl reports that he has no problems with drinking. This is an example of
a. the problems with self-report data.
b. the problems with case studies.
c. the problems of diagnosis.
d. the problems of forming hypotheses
a. the problems with self-report data.
________ are more or less plausible ideas used to explain something (e.g., a behavior) and can be tested
using research methods.
,a. Observations
b. Hypotheses
c. Variables
d. Correlations
b. Hypotheses
Ideally, a sample should be what?
a. Random
b. Representative
c. Generalizable
d. Demographically pure
b. Representative
Why is a representative sample desirable?
a. Such samples are random.
b. Hypotheses can only be tested on representative samples.
c. Only representative samples yield meaningful results.
d. The more representative a sample is, the more generalizable the data.
d. The more representative a sample is, the more generalizable the data.
Dr. Katz is researching the causes of all phobias. He puts an ad in a newspaper asking for only people
who have an intense, distressing fear of snakes to come and participate in his study. The major problem
with this is
a. the people who come may not have a phobia.
b. his sample will be too small.
c. he is not getting a representative sample.
d. he doesn't know if people are telling the truth about their fears or not.
c. he is not getting a representative sample.
Why would a researcher want to ensure that every person in the larger group of study has an equal
chance of being included in the sample?
a. It helps eliminate a correlational relationship.
b. It increases the chances of finding a causal relationship.
c. It provides important epidemiological information such as the prevalence and incidence of the
disorder.
d. It increases the researcher's ability to generalize findings to the larger group.
d. It increases the researcher's ability to generalize findings to the larger group.
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 ________
a. the absence of correlational statistics.
b. the failure to use DSM-5 criteria for health problems.
c. having an inappropriate control group.
d. nonrepresentative sampling.
d. nonrepresentative sampling.
In Dr. Lu's study of eating disorders, she looked at the academic histories of girls with an eating disorder
and girls who did not have such problems. In this example, the girls with eating disorders are the
________ group.
a. comparison
b. control
c. criterion
d. treatment
c. criterion
In Dr. Lu's study of eating disorders, she looked at the academic histories of girls with an eating disorder
and girls who did not have such problems. In this example, the girls without eating disorders are the
________ group.
a. conforming
b. control
c. criterion
d. treatment
b. control
What is MTurk?
a. An online labor market that connects requesters with workers.
b. A method to make a correlational study more powerful.
c. The relationship between internal and external validity.
d. One method to create a valid sample from any population.
a. An online labor market that connects requesters with workers.
What is external validity?
a. The extent to which research findings are consistent with hypotheses.
b. The extent to which the sample equals the population.
c. The extent to which research findings can be generalized beyond the study.
d. A measure of how powerful the statistics being used are within a study.
c. The extent to which research findings can be generalized beyond the study.
, To determine whether certain characteristics are true of people in general, and not just of people with
mental disorders, it is important to use
a. an experimental design.
b. a representative sample of individuals with the disorder.
c. a control group.
d. a criterion group.
c. a control group.
What is a good control group for a research study on people with eating disorders?
a. People who have an eating disorder and a wide range of educational backgrounds.
b. A group that is comparable to those with eating disorders except that they eat normally.
c. A group that is drawn from the sample of people with eating disorders.
d. People who used to have eating disorders but say they no longer do.
b. A group that is comparable to those with eating disorders except that they eat normally.
In what significant ways do correlational research designs differ from experimental research designs?
a. Correlational research does not require the selection of a sample to study.
b. Correlational research does not generate hypotheses.
c. There is no comparison group in correlational research.
d. There is no manipulation of variables in correlational research
d. There is no manipulation of variables in correlational research.
Why are correlational research designs often used in abnormal psychology?
a. They are best at determining cause and effect.
b. They are the most useful for comparing groups.
c. They give in-depth descriptions of the disorder being studied.
d. It is often unethical or impossible to directly manipulate the variables involved in abnormal
psychology
d. It is often unethical or impossible to directly manipulate the variables involved in abnormal
psychology
What is the most important limitation of correlational studies?
a. They cannot determine cause and effect.
b. They are very subject to bias.
c. They rarely have representative samples.
d. They are very difficult to do
a. They cannot determine cause and effect.
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