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“The primary problem is an unconscious anger toward his
mother.” What makes this statement unscientific?
a. It is not reliable.
b. It does not make sense.
c. It is not theoretical.
d. It is not testable.
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D. It is not testable.
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A theory
a. is derived from hypotheses.
b. is the result of long deliberation by a scientist.
c. attempts to explain a class of phenomena.
d. All of the above are correct.
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D. All of the above are correct.
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A good theory should
a. be capable of being proven wrong.
b. make sense of obscure phenomena.
c. develop directly out of observations.
d. explain cause-effect relationships.
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D. explain cause-effect relationships.
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Which of the following are generated by theories?
a. case material
b. hypotheses
c. statistical significance
d. None of the above are correct.
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B. hypotheses
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Dr. Lee has been treating someone with an unusual
combination of symptoms. He notes that
there is no published research on such a combination of symptoms, and considers
developing a case study. How would Dr.
Lee conduct this study?
a. Try to find other cases like the one he is treating.
b. Gather detailed historical and biographical information
on this single individual.
c. Examine treatment response using an ABAB design.
d. Withhold treatment in an effort to fully understand the
significance of symptoms.
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B. Gather detailed historical and biographical information on this single individual.
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Which research method would be most useful in generating
hypotheses about the cause of a newly discovered, rare form of abnormality?
a. case study
b. correlational method
c. experimental design
d. single-subject ABAB design
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a. case study |
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Case studies can be effective for which of the following
purposes?
a. Confirming theoretical propositions.
b. Generating research hypotheses.
c. Demonstrating universal relationships.
d. Showing cause-effect relationships.
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B. Generating research hypotheses.
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A theorist proposed that anorexia was caused by early
childhood sexual abuse. Dr. Firestorm demonstrated that her anorexic patient
had never been sexually abused. This is an example of one important use of
which method?
a. case study
b. epidemiological
c. correlational
d. experimental
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a. case study |
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11. Case studies are not useful in
a. providing the means for ruling out alternative
hypotheses.
b. providing a rich description of clinical phenomena.
c. disproving an allegedly universal hypothesis.
d. generating hypotheses.
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A. providing the means for ruling out alternative hypotheses.
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Which of the following are valid criticisms of the case
study method?
a. It does not provide the means for ruling out alternative
hypotheses.
b. It is unable to provide satisfactory evidence for
cause-effect relationships.
c. The results of a case study are influenced by many
factors unique to the subject and the context of the case study.
d. All of the above choices are correct.
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D. All of the above choices are correct.
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The case, The Three Faces of Eve, was controversial because
a. some challenged the existence of multiple personalities.
b. the individual in the case offered a different account of
her treatment than her doctors.
c. it ultimately did not offer much information on multiple
personality.
d. the case study challenged conventional wisdom on multiple
personality.
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B. the individual in the case offered a different account of her treatment than her doctors.
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In order to study phenomena and be able to draw broad
conclusions, the design with the lowest value in accomplishing this goal is
the
a. case study method.
b. correlational method.
c. experimental method.
d. longitudinal design.
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A. case study method.
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Dr. Bradley has been conducting a case study of Brenda P., a
woman with dissociative identity disorder. Which of the following statements by
Dr. Bradley is a misuse of the case study method?
a. "Brenda, a woman with dissociative identity
disorder, was sexually abused as a child.
Therefore, all individuals with multiple personality disorder must have
been abuse victims."
b. "Since Brenda was not sexually abused, the theory
that all dissociation is caused by sexual abuse may not be universally
true."
c. "Brenda was sexually molested as a child. This leads me to hypothesize that perhaps
other individuals with dissociative identity disorder were molested as
children."
d. All of the above are examples of inappropriate uses of
the case study.
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A. "Brenda, a woman with dissociative identity disorder, was sexually abused as a child. Therefore, all individuals with multiple personality disorder must have been abuse victims."
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Which of the following research methods are best used for
only hypothesis generating?
a. case study
b. epidemiology
c. correlational study
d. experiment
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A. case study
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Professor Merrick wishes to study the percentage of men from
various social classes who drop out of school. Which of the following methods
would be most useful?
a. experiment
b. case studies
c. epidemiological research
d. mixed designs
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C. epidemiological research
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