Quiz 1

A  triple-blind design.

B  double-blind design.

C  quasi-experimental design.

D  single-blind design.

A  statistically deviant.

B  suffering from a mental illness.

C  deviant but not dangerous.

D  exhibiting a typical reaction.

A  the effects of a plant closing on community cohesiveness

B  the effects of a particularly harsh blizzard on depression

C  the effects of premarital abstinence on later sexual functioning

D  the effects of war on children in Kosovo

A  a long-term study of a single clinical client

B  a study involving use of a control group

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

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

A  a quasi-experiment

B  an experiment

C  a natural experiment

D  a double-blind strategy

A  deinstitutionalization

B  privatization of mental hospitals

C  state hospitals

D  federal prisons

A  the new drug

B  the ones who got the placebo

C  the psychiatric evaluation

D  the level of agitation

A  confounds

B  blind methods

C  irrelevant variables

D  controlled variables

A  supernatural.

B  psychiatric.

C  somatogenic.

D  psychogenic.

A  symptoms of depression cause life stress.

B  life stress and depression are related.

C  life stress causes symptoms of depression.

D  something else causes stress and depression.

A  studying the effects of metaphors on memory

B  studying children in their classrooms

C  studying the elderly in nursing homes

D  studying the effects of stress in nonhumans

A  the participant can understand the explanation.

B  there are no risks in the study under consideration.

C  the benefits outweigh the risks.

D  there is compensation.

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  promotion and public psychology

B  people and professional psychology

C  perfection and primary psychology

D  prevention and positive psychology

A  suggesting new areas for further study

B  learning a great deal about a particular patient

C  studying unusual problems

D  determining general laws of behavior

A  developmental

B  longitudinal

C  epidemiological

D  experimental

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

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

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

D  It was the first asylum founded by Hippocrates.

A  confound.

B  placebo.

C  dependent variable.

D  random variable.

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

B  asking participants to choose the group they prefer.

C  flipping a coin to determine group assignment.

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

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

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

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

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