Quiz 1

A  single-blind design.

B  triple-blind design.

C  double-blind design.

D  quasi-experimental design.

A  exhibiting a typical reaction.

B  deviant but not dangerous.

C  statistically deviant.

D  suffering from a mental illness.

A  the effects of premarital abstinence on later sexual functioning

B  the effects of war on children in Kosovo

C  the effects of a particularly harsh blizzard on depression

D  the effects of a plant closing on community cohesiveness

A  a study of all the cases of a disorder in a community

B  a long-term study of a single clinical client

C  a study involving use of a control group

D  the creation of a disorder in a group of lab rats

A  an experiment

B  a quasi-experiment

C  a double-blind strategy

D  a natural experiment

A  state hospitals

B  deinstitutionalization

C  privatization of mental hospitals

D  federal prisons

A  the psychiatric evaluation

B  the ones who got the placebo

C  the new drug

D  the level of agitation

A  controlled variables

B  irrelevant variables

C  blind methods

D  confounds

A  psychogenic.

B  supernatural.

C  psychiatric.

D  somatogenic.

A  life stress causes symptoms of depression.

B  something else causes stress and depression.

C  symptoms of depression cause life stress.

D  life stress and depression are related.

A  studying children in their classrooms

B  studying the effects of metaphors on memory

C  studying the effects of stress in nonhumans

D  studying the elderly in nursing homes

A  there are no risks in the study under consideration.

B  the participant can understand the explanation.

C  the benefits outweigh the risks.

D  there is compensation.

A  all patients needing treatment had to be helped.

B  fewer and fewer immigrants were being sent to mental hospitals.

C  prejudice against those with mental disorders decreased.

D  hospitals became underfunded and overcrowded.

A  prevention and positive psychology

B  people and professional psychology

C  promotion and public psychology

D  perfection and primary psychology

A  determining general laws of behavior

B  learning a great deal about a particular patient

C  studying unusual problems

D  suggesting new areas for further study

A  experimental

B  developmental

C  epidemiological

D  longitudinal

A  It was the first asylum founded by Hippocrates.

B  Popularly called “Bedlam,” it came to represent deplorable conditions for patients.

C  It was the first asylum where the moral treatment of patients was practiced.

D  It was founded by Henry VIII as a place to house his numerous ex-wives.

A  confound.

B  random variable.

C  dependent variable.

D  placebo.

A  flipping a coin to determine group assignment.

B  asking participants to choose the group they prefer.

C  making sure there is only one participant in each group.

D  placing all the participants sharing an important characteristic in the same group.

A  sugared cereal is the dependent variable and cornflakes is the independent variable.

B  breakfast is the independent variable, and the group of children is the dependent variable.

C  the type of cereal is the independent variable, and the number of aggressive responses is the dependent variable.

D  the type of cereal is the dependent variable, and the number of aggressive responses is the independent variable.