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answer the following questions Question 1 In ____…
answer the following questions
Question 1
In ____ research, different individuals at different ages or stages of development are studied at the same point in time.
a.
analogue
b.
longitudinal
c.
quasi-experimental
d.
cross-sectional
QUESTION 2
Research suggests that which of the following treatments is most effective for the treatment of child behavior problems?
a.
humanistic
b.
developmental
c.
psychodynamic
d.
behavioral
QUESTION 3
A psychologist who believes in the humanistic paradigm is most likely to recommend which type of treatment?
a.
stricter punishment
b.
medication
c.
unconditional positive regard
d.
cognitive therapy
QUESTION 4
Qualitative research…
a.
requires that you develop specific hypotheses in advance
b.
is the only design that allows you to determine causality
c.
is helpful for generating new hypotheses for future research
d.
is typically very contrived and artificial
QUESTION 5
Ben moved between many foster homes throughout his early childhood. During this time, he often got in trouble at school for engaging in disruptive behaviors (e.g., refusing to take naps, getting into fights with other children) and he struggled to separate from his caregivers to go to school. At the age of 7, he was adopted by a supportive and loving family. After living with this family for several years, he began to feel more secure, stopped engaging in disruptive behaviors, and made friends at school. He even started to enjoy one of his classes. This case example supports which hypothesis?
a.
discontinuous hypothesis
b.
continuity hypothesis
c.
stability hypothesis
d.
growth hypothesis
QUESTION 6
Which psychological paradigm would argue that psychopathology is caused by a person’s biology?
a.
medical
b.
behavioral
c.
cognitive
d.
biological
QUESTION 7
The central tenet of developmental psychopathology is that to understand maladaptive behavior, we must consider ____.?
a.
only a child’s environment
b.
the child’s familial history for maladjustment
c.
what is normative for a given period of development
d.
one’s genetic predisposition
QUESTION 8
Which of the following is not true about a within-subjects design?
a.
there is no control group
b.
participants are compared to their own pre-treatment baseline
c.
you have fewer children in each group, which limits your statistical power
d.
it gives you more statistical power than a between-subjects design
QUESTION 9
Which type of research design would enable you to establish a variable as playing a causal role in child depressive symptoms?
a.
experimental
b.
quasi-experimental
c.
cross-sectional
d.
prospective
QUESTION 10
Professor J is interested in exploring how child frustration in a laboratory-based stressor task contributes to parent ratings of child behavior problems. She recruits mothers and their children when children are preschool-aged (3-5 years) for the lab portion of the study. She then re-contacts the mothers when their children are school-aged (6-8 years) in order to have them complete rating forms asking about their children’s behavior. She hypothesizes that more distress during the lab task in the preschool phase of the study will relate to more externalizing behavior problems in school-age. Which type of study design is Professor J using?
a.
follow-back study
b.
cross sectional study
c.
longitudinal study
d.
randomized controlled study
QUESTION 11
Which of the following is the most likely to be a transitory problem that children grow out of?
a.
intellectual disability
b.
self confidence
c.
specific phobias
d.
aggression
QUESTION 12
Amelia recently sustained a concussion while playing soccer and her parents are worried the concussion damaged part of her brain that’s important for her memory. What type of assessment would help the parents figure out if this is true?
a.
Behavioral
b.
Psychodiagnostic
c.
Neuropsychological
d.
Psychoeducational
QUESTION 13
A researcher asks a group of child psychologists to estimate the prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder. They estimate the prevalence to be around 8%, but in reality the national prevalence of ASD is around 1-2%. Which of the following best accounts for this discrepancy?
a.
Poor training
b.
Clinician’s illusion
c.
Reporter bias
d.
Retrospective bias
QUESTION 14
Professor J wants to design a study that examines the potential protective role that sunlight plays in the relationship between prenatal stress and infant cognitive outcomes. Her hypothesis is that more sunlight will be beneficial for the group of infants with high stress. What type of variable is sunlight in this study?
a.
predictor
b.
moderator
c.
mediator
d.
model
QUESTION 15
__________ refers to the consistency, or repeatability of results obtained using a specific method of measurement. whereas _______
refers to the extent to which it actually measures the dimension or construct that the researcher sets out to measure.
a.
validity, reliability
b.
reliability, standardization
c.
reliability, validity
d.
standardization, validity
