Quiz 1

A  single-blind design.

B  quasi-experimental design.

C  triple-blind design.

D  double-blind design.

A  suffering from a mental illness.

B  deviant but not dangerous.

C  statistically deviant.

D  exhibiting a typical reaction.

A  the effects of war on children in Kosovo

B  the effects of a particularly harsh blizzard on depression

C  the effects of a plant closing on community cohesiveness

D  the effects of premarital abstinence on later sexual functioning

A  a long-term study of a single clinical client

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

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

D  a study involving use of a control group

A  a natural experiment

B  a quasi-experiment

C  an experiment

D  a double-blind strategy

A  federal prisons

B  privatization of mental hospitals

C  deinstitutionalization

D  state hospitals

A  the psychiatric evaluation

B  the level of agitation

C  the new drug

D  the ones who got the placebo

A  blind methods

B  controlled variables

C  irrelevant variables

D  confounds

A  psychiatric.

B  somatogenic.

C  psychogenic.

D  supernatural.

A  life stress causes symptoms of depression.

B  life stress and depression are related.

C  something else causes stress and depression.

D  symptoms of depression cause life stress.

A  studying the effects of stress in nonhumans

B  studying the effects of metaphors on memory

C  studying children in their classrooms

D  studying the elderly in nursing homes

A  there are no risks in the study under consideration.

B  the benefits outweigh the risks.

C  there is compensation.

D  the participant can understand the explanation.

A  all patients needing treatment had to be helped.

B  prejudice against those with mental disorders decreased.

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

D  hospitals became underfunded and overcrowded.

A  people and professional psychology

B  perfection and primary psychology

C  promotion and public psychology

D  prevention and positive 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  longitudinal

C  epidemiological

D  developmental

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

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

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

D  It was the first asylum founded by Hippocrates.

A  random variable.

B  placebo.

C  confound.

D  dependent variable.

A  asking participants to choose the group they prefer.

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

C  flipping a coin to determine group assignment.

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

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

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

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

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