Quiz 1

A  single-blind design.

B  double-blind design.

C  quasi-experimental design.

D  triple-blind design.

A  exhibiting a typical reaction.

B  deviant but not dangerous.

C  statistically deviant.

D  suffering from a mental illness.

A  the effects of war on children in Kosovo

B  the effects of premarital abstinence on later sexual functioning

C  the effects of a particularly harsh blizzard on depression

D  the effects of a plant closing on community cohesiveness

A  a study involving use of a control group

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

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

D  a long-term study of a single clinical client

A  a double-blind strategy

B  a natural experiment

C  a quasi-experiment

D  an experiment

A  deinstitutionalization

B  federal prisons

C  privatization of mental hospitals

D  state hospitals

A  the level of agitation

B  the new drug

C  the psychiatric evaluation

D  the ones who got the placebo

A  controlled variables

B  confounds

C  blind methods

D  irrelevant variables

A  psychogenic.

B  psychiatric.

C  somatogenic.

D  supernatural.

A  life stress and depression are related.

B  something else causes stress and depression.

C  symptoms of depression cause life stress.

D  life stress causes symptoms of depression.

A  studying the elderly in nursing homes

B  studying children in their classrooms

C  studying the effects of stress in nonhumans

D  studying the effects of metaphors on memory

A  the participant can understand the explanation.

B  there is compensation.

C  there are no risks in the study under consideration.

D  the benefits outweigh the risks.

A  all patients needing treatment had to be helped.

B  prejudice against those with mental disorders decreased.

C  hospitals became underfunded and overcrowded.

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

A  promotion and public psychology

B  perfection and primary psychology

C  people and professional psychology

D  prevention and positive psychology

A  suggesting new areas for further study

B  studying unusual problems

C  determining general laws of behavior

D  learning a great deal about a particular patient

A  longitudinal

B  experimental

C  epidemiological

D  developmental

A  It was the first asylum founded by Hippocrates.

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

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

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

A  placebo.

B  confound.

C  random variable.

D  dependent variable.

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

B  asking participants to choose the group they prefer.

C  flipping a coin to determine group assignment.

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

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

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

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

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