Research In Applied Psychology
Week 9 Material
- 1.What is the goal of applied research?
- A.
Focus on human behavior as an end in itself
- B.
Focus on treatments and investigating them use experimental design and other methods as well
- C.
Focus on interventions or investigating questions that have direct implications for interventions using a lot of research methods and experimental design
- D.
Focus on examining what the APA goes and how they effective things are as the MMPI
- 2.Which of the following is not a different type of research design?
- A.
Experimental
- B.
Questionnaires
- C.
Analogue
- D.
Psychotherapy process vs. outcome
- E.
Qualitative vs. quantitative
- 3.What is generalizability?
- A.
Asks if the stress level of the groups differ after the intervention
- B.
Asks how general one intervention affects a person
- C.
Asks how well will the intervention work in other setting
- D.
All of the above
- 4.In psychotherapy research, a good control group does NOT have to be
- A.
Untreated
- B.
Randomly assigned
- C.
Matched to the treatment group on important variables
- D.
Randomly assigned
- 5.A behaviorist would most likely use which method of measuring behavior?
- A.
Count specific behaviors in specific situations
- B.
An objective test to measure the trait
- C.
An MMPI
- D.
Have the client recall and list the instances of the behavior
- 6.In order to measure how effective a therapy is you could do all of the following EXCEPT....
- A.
Measure the pretreatment status of the client
- B.
Establish a control group that doesn't receive the therapy
- C.
Decide how you will measure any changes
- D.
Give all of your subjects all of the different therapies
- 7.In psychotherapy research, symptom removal is
- A.
A relatively clear cut and easy to measure
- B.
Totally unimportant to most therapies
- C.
Focused on by behaviorists
- D.
The best measure of change
- 8.Which of following is NOT a therapeutic change, according to some theory of therapy?
- A.
Gaining increased knowledge about school subjects
- B.
Thinking more rationally
- C.
Stopping drinking
- D.
Increasing self-acceptance
- E.
Restructuring personality
- 9.The kinds of experiences therapists and clients have in therapy do not provide a scientifically reliable basis for knowledge. Which of the following is NOT a reason why?
- A.
Seeing is not necessarily knowing
- B.
We generalize from our particular vivid experiences to everyone
- C.
Most clients are not in therapy long enough for a reliable assessment
- D.
We humans have a tendency to place more confidence in a highly vivid experience than is warranted
- 10.Claiming success for therapy is always difficult because
- A.
Improvement cannot be accurately measured
- B.
There may be alternate reasons for any improvement
- C.
The long term effects haven't been measured
- D.
Psychologists themselves are making the claims
- 11.The role of a "placebo" in psychotherapy research is
- A.
As a curative factor
- B.
As a control group
- C.
Unnecessary
- D.
As part of drug treatment
- 12.All of the following are difficulties faced by researchers into the effectiveness of psychotherapy, EXCEPT
- A.
Agreeing on a measure of improvement
- B.
Agreeing on a definition of improvement
- C.
Refuting previous negative evidence
- D.
Implementing a good experimental design
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