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Question #1

A researcher conducted an experiment to study the causes of aggression in children. Half the children ate a sugared cereal; the remaining half ate cornflakes. The researcher then recorded the number of aggressive acts displayed by the children in a one-hour play period after breakfast. In this experiment:

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 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.

Question #2

To accomplish random assignment, one could assign participants to groups by:

A. flipping a coin to determine group assignment.

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

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

D. asking participants to choose the group they prefer.

Question #3

A “fake” pill used as the control condition in a drug study is a:

A. confound.

B. random variable.

C. dependent variable.

D. placebo.

Question #4

What is the distinction of Bethlehem Hospital, founded in London in 1547?

A. It was the first asylum founded by Hippocrates.

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

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

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

Question #5

Studies that determine the incidence and prevalence of a disorder in a particular population are called ______ studies.

A. longitudinal

B. developmental

C. epidemiological

D. experimental

Question #6

Which is NOT a way that case studies are useful?

A. determining general laws of behavior

B. studying unusual problems

C. learning a great deal about a particular patient

D. suggesting new areas for further study

Question #7

Which pair of words BEST describes the current emphasis in mental health?

A. people and professional psychology

B. prevention and positive psychology

C. promotion and public psychology

D. perfection and primary psychology

Question #8

The “moral treatment” movement rapidly declined in the late nineteenth century because:

A. prejudice against those with mental disorders decreased.

B. all patients needing treatment had to be helped.

C. hospitals became underfunded and overcrowded.

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

Question #9

The principle of informed consent assumes that:

A. the participant can understand the explanation.

B. the benefits outweigh the risks.

C. there are no risks in the study under consideration.

D. there is compensation.

Question #10

Which item is an analogue study?

A. studying the effects of stress in nonhumans

B. studying the elderly in nursing homes

C. studying the effects of metaphors on memory

D. studying children in their classrooms

Question #11

A researcher finds a strong positive correlation between ratings of life stress and symptoms of depression. Therefore, the researcher may be confident that:

A. life stress causes symptoms of depression.

B. symptoms of depression cause life stress.

C. life stress and depression are related.

D. something else causes stress and depression.

Question #12

Hippocrates's model of mental illness can be described as:

A. somatogenic.

B. supernatural.

C. psychiatric.

D. psychogenic.

Question #13

Factors other than the independent variable may also act on the dependent variable. If these factors vary systematically with the independent variable, they are called _____.

A. irrelevant variables

B. confounds

C. controlled variables

D. blind methods

Question #14

One hundred psychiatric patients were randomly assigned to one of two groups. One group received a new drug in pill form. The other group was given identical-looking placebo pills. A panel of psychiatrists, who did not know which pill each participant received, evaluated all participants for level of agitation. What is the control group?

A. the level of agitation

B. the ones who got the placebo

C. the new drug

D. the psychiatric evaluation

Question #15

Which is a component of the legacy of Dorothea Dix?

A. state hospitals

B. deinstitutionalization

C. privatization of mental hospitals

D. federal prisons

Question #16

Which would be the BEST design to study the effects of disasters on survivors?

A. a natural experiment

B. an experiment

C. a quasi-experiment

D. a double-blind strategy

Question #17

Which is an example of a case study?

A. a study involving use of a control group

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

C. a long-term study of a single clinical client

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

Question #18

Which would be LEAST appropriately studied using a natural experiment?

A. the effects of a plant closing on community cohesiveness

B. the effects of war on children in Kosovo

C. the effects of premarital abstinence on later sexual functioning

D. the effects of a particularly harsh blizzard on depression

Question #19

If a person experienced anxiety or depression following a significant natural disaster, we would say that the person was:

A. exhibiting a typical reaction.

B. statistically deviant.

C. deviant but not dangerous.

D. suffering from a mental illness.

Question #20

In preparation for a study of the effectiveness of an antipsychotic drug, an assistant puts all drugs into capsules of the same color and codes them. The assistant will have no part in administering the drug. Neither the subjects nor the experimenter will know who receives which drug. This is an example of a:

A. single-blind design.

B. double-blind design.

C. quasi-experimental design.

D. triple-blind design.

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