Abnormal Child Psych Quiz 2
A correlation score of +0.75 between two variables such as symptoms of anxiety and symptoms of depression indicates what kind of relationship between these variables?
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Minimum ethical standards for practice include:
-making sure client participation is active & voluntary -making sure that confidentiality of the therapeutic relationship is maintained -making sure that the treatment goals & procedures are in the best interest of the child
___research focuses on a specific research question under conditions that only resemble or approximate the situation to which the researcher wishes to generalize.
Analogue
Which condition is equally common among males and females?
Childhood Depression
Participation in research is done through direct informed consent except when the participants are ___
Children
____ approaches to treatment view child psychopathology as the result of faulty thought patterns and faulty learning and environmental experiences.
Cognitive Behavioral
____ validity refers to the degree of correlation between measures that are expected to be related to one another.
Construct
___validity refers to the degree of correlation between measures that are not expected to be related to one another.
Discriminant Validity
To record electrical activity of the brain, one would want to use a(n) ____.
EEG
More than 70% of practicing clinicians identify their therapeutic approach as ____
Eclectic
To know if a treatment would truly be useful in community settings, researchers should focus on treatment
Effectiveness
The degree to which findings can be generalized to children, settings, times, measures, and characteristics other than the one in a particular study is referred to as ____.
External Validity
In ____ research, different individuals at different ages or stages of development are studied at the same point in time.
Longitudanl
___ use radio signals generated in a strong magnetic field.
MRIs
Factors that influence the direction or strength of a relationship of variables of interest are called ____.
Moderator Variables
Because there is no one correct approach to research, most problems in abnormal child psychology are best studied by ____.
Multiple methods & strategies
___ means generating predictions concerning future behavior under specified conditions.
Prognosis
____ increases the chance that characteristics other than the independent variable will be equally distributed across treatment groups.
Random Assignment
Factors such as SES, child's age, and cultural background affect the _____ of symptoms and disorders.
Rate and Expression
Recall bias and distortion are potential limitations of ____ studies.
Retrospective
A variable that precedes an outcome of interest and increases the chances that the negative outcome will occur is a(n) ____.
Risk factor
A ____ assessment measure allows for the scores of one child to be compared to the scores of other similar children.
Standardized
A child's ____ has the most implications for judgments about deviancy and for selecting appropriate assessment and treatment methods.
age
The "C" in the "ABCs of behavioral assessment" stands for ____
consequences
Research demonstrates that, with respect to aggression, girls ___
engage in more relational forms of aggression
Which behavior would be characteristic of someone with issues on the internalizing behavior dimension?
feeling sad all of the time
In research terms, research questions about behavior that follow from a theory are called ___
hypotheses
____ refers to efforts to increase adherence with treatment over time to prevent reoccurrence.
maintenance
Research procedures that may harm a child physically or psychologically should ____
never be used
Gathering information about a child's behavior for analysis involves ___
observing the child in real-life settings
Qualitative data are typically collected by
open-ended interviewing and observations
An assessment tool that actually measures the construct it is intended to measure can be considered ____.
valid
