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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. 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.

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. 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.

Question #3

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

A. random variable.

B. placebo.

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 where the moral treatment of patients was practiced.

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

C. It was the first asylum founded by Hippocrates.

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. epidemiological

B. longitudinal

C. developmental

D. experimental

Question #6

Which is NOT a way that case studies are useful?

A. studying unusual problems

B. suggesting new areas for further study

C. determining general laws of behavior

D. learning a great deal about a particular patient

Question #7

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

A. promotion and public psychology

B. prevention and positive psychology

C. perfection and primary psychology

D. people and professional psychology

Question #8

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

A. all patients needing treatment had to be helped.

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

C. hospitals became underfunded and overcrowded.

D. prejudice against those with mental disorders decreased.

Question #9

The principle of informed consent assumes that:

A. there is compensation.

B. the benefits outweigh the risks.

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

D. the participant can understand the explanation.

Question #10

Which item is an analogue study?

A. studying the effects of metaphors on memory

B. studying the effects of stress in nonhumans

C. studying the elderly in nursing homes

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 and depression are related.

B. life stress causes symptoms of depression.

C. symptoms of depression cause life stress.

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. controlled variables

B. confounds

C. blind methods

D. irrelevant 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 level of agitation

B. the new drug

C. the psychiatric evaluation

D. the ones who got the placebo

Question #15

Which is a component of the legacy of Dorothea Dix?

A. state hospitals

B. federal prisons

C. privatization of mental hospitals

D. deinstitutionalization

Question #16

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

A. a quasi-experiment

B. an experiment

C. a natural experiment

D. a double-blind strategy

Question #17

Which is an example of a case study?

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

B. a study involving use of a control group

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

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. suffering from a mental illness.

B. deviant but not dangerous.

C. statistically deviant.

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. double-blind design.

B. single-blind design.

C. triple-blind design.

D. quasi-experimental design.

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