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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 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.

Question #2

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

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

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

C. asking participants to choose the group they prefer.

D. flipping a coin to determine group assignment.

Question #3

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

A. placebo.

B. random variable.

C. confound.

D. dependent variable.

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 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.

Question #5

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

A. longitudinal

B. developmental

C. experimental

D. epidemiological

Question #6

Which is NOT a way that case studies are useful?

A. suggesting new areas for further study

B. studying unusual problems

C. learning a great deal about a particular patient

D. determining general laws of behavior

Question #7

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

A. people and professional psychology

B. promotion and public psychology

C. prevention and positive psychology

D. perfection and primary psychology

Question #8

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

A. hospitals became underfunded and overcrowded.

B. prejudice against those with mental disorders decreased.

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

D. all patients needing treatment had to be helped.

Question #9

The principle of informed consent assumes that:

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

B. there is compensation.

C. the participant can understand the explanation.

D. the benefits outweigh the risks.

Question #10

Which item is an analogue study?

A. studying the effects of stress in nonhumans

B. studying children in their classrooms

C. studying the elderly in nursing homes

D. studying the effects of metaphors on memory

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. something else causes stress and depression.

B. life stress causes symptoms of depression.

C. symptoms of depression cause life stress.

D. life stress and depression are related.

Question #12

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

A. psychogenic.

B. supernatural.

C. somatogenic.

D. psychiatric.

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. blind methods

D. controlled variables

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 ones who got the placebo

B. the level of agitation

C. the psychiatric evaluation

D. the new drug

Question #15

Which is a component of the legacy of Dorothea Dix?

A. state hospitals

B. deinstitutionalization

C. federal prisons

D. privatization of mental hospitals

Question #16

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

A. a natural experiment

B. a quasi-experiment

C. a double-blind strategy

D. an experiment

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

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

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 premarital abstinence on later sexual functioning

C. the effects of war on children in Kosovo

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. statistically deviant.

B. suffering from a mental illness.

C. deviant but not dangerous.

D. exhibiting a typical reaction.

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. triple-blind design.

C. quasi-experimental design.

D. double-blind design.

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