Words starting With an E
The word which describes success of a therapy in actual clinical settings, or how well it translates from the lab to the "real world"
What is effectiveness?
This type of variable is manipulated by the experimenter
What is the independent variable (IV)?
This research design emphasizes change across time often making within group comparisons from one point to another.
What is longitudinal design
In this design a treatment is alternately applied or removed
What is ABAB design?
This design is used when researchers are unable to preform a true experiment due to ethical or other issues.
What is the Quasi-experiment design?
The word which describes the success of a particular therapy in a controlled study conducted with clients with a certain criteria, or how well it works "in the lab"
What is efficacy?
These are the variables that are expected to change as a result of changes of the independent variables
What is dependent variable?
this method examines the relationship that exists between two or more variables .
What is correlational methods?
This study involves thorough and detailed examination of one unusual person or situation.
What is case study
a clinical trial involving the random assignment of participants to groups that receive treatment or no treatment. At the end a comparison of the groups is completed to see how helpful the treatment was.
What is a randomized clinical trial?
The generalizability of the result, or to what extent the same finding is correct for different settings or populations
What is external validity?
This group does not receive the experimental treatment
What is control group?
this design assess or compare a participant or group of participants at one particular point in time.
What is cross sectional designs?
This approach emphasizes/ reveals the unique qualities of each person and is often used in case studies
What is the idiographic approach?
The term used to define how well a particular treatment works.
What is treatment outcome?
psychologist and scientist who wrote a review on psychology and changed the way psychologists do research to make the field more ethical and to increase validity of research
Who is Eysenck?
This is what internal validity describes
What is the extent to which the change in the DV is due solely to the change in the IV?
In this design participants in different conditions receive entirely different treatments
What is between group design?
This research design is a combination of between and within group designs and allows for comparison of the two groups at the end of the study.
What is mixed group design?
A research design in which the same group of subjects serves in all treatment or condition groups.
What is within-group design?
The condition which receives treatment in a study
What is the experimental condition?
The experimental method follows these 4 steps
What is it to: 1 begin with an observation of events, 2 the clinical psychologist develops a hypothesis to explain the observed events, 3 empirically test the hypothesis, 4 alter the hypothesis to match the results/ interpretations obtained during the testing ?
This study is the type that involves an approximation of the target client or situation as a substitute for the “real thing.”
What is analogue design?
This approach determines similarities or common qualities among people
What is the nomothetic approach?
Known as one of the most powerful tools used by clinical psychologists, this analytic technique uses a combination of results from separate studies to create a summation.
What is Meta analysis?