Find Your Purpose
The most fundamental reason clinical psychologists do research is to gain knowledge about:
psychological disorders
Whether or not a significant difference exists between two groups in a lab is known as:
statistical significance
This method involves a number of discrete, sequential steps, including observation, hypothesis, empirical testing, and hypothesis revision.
Experimental method
When two variables vary together (aka as A increases, B increases) this is known as a:
positive correlation
Studies on how to educate those entering the profession include areas of study such as outcomes of particular training efforts and specific coursework relates to chapter 1 and our discussion of the educational requirements for clinical psychologists including a ________ degree
doctoral
How well a therapy works in actual clinical settings or “the real world” is known as:
Effectiveness
The generalizability of a result or the extent to which the same finding is valid for different settings and populations is known as:
external validity
A common type of experimental study in which researchers test the outcome of a particular, manualized therapy on a particular diagnosis with participants randomly assigned to groups is know as a
Randomized clinical trial (RTC)
A ___________ design is an experimental design that assess groups of participants at one particular point in time (often participants of different age demographics)
cross-sectional
Research on the impact of COVID-19 and clinical psychology has much to do with this with current controversy from chapter 3.
Telehealth and/or telepsychology
Research in clinical psychology often measures _________________ or the level of how well therapies work
treatment outcomes
A statistical method of combining results of separate studies to create a summation of the findings is known as a:
meta-analysis
Idiographic and Nomothetic approaches are are examples of ________ — studies that involve a thorough and detailed examination of one person or situation
Case studies
The experimental group receives the experimental treatment, while the _______ group that does not receive the experimental treatment
control
Studies on the ethical dilemmas encountered by psychologists in rural vs. urban communities has much to do with this with ethical concern from chapter 5.
Multiple Relationships
The measure of how well a therapy works “in the lab” (aka controlled study) is known as
Efficacy
Whether or not a significant difference exists between groups in real-world terms is known as:
clinical significance
This research approach is less scientifically sound; however, it allows for clinical psychologists to conduct research more ethically and practically in terms of providing treatment to participants.
Quasi-experimental design
A ____________ design is an experimental design that emphasizes changes cross time, often making within-group comparisons from one point in time to another over long periods of time
longitudinal
Research on the prevalence, validity or reliability of existing and proposed diagnostic constructs has much to do with this with current controversy from chapter 3.
Overexpansion of Mental Disorders
In-person workshops, synchronous or self-paced online training programs, and direct-to-consumer strategies are all _______________ — efforts to promote therapies that have demonstrated effectiveness in treatment studies to large numbers of therapists
Dissemination strategies
The extent to which the change in the dependent variable is due solely to the change in the independent variable is known as
internal validity
An experimental design that involves an approximation of the target client or situation as a substitute for the “real thing” is know as an:
analogue design
When two variables vary in the inverse aka as A increases, B decreases is known as a:
negative correlation
Studies on the effects of a client suicide on clinical psychologists has much to do with this with ethical concerns from chapter 5.
Privacy and/or Confidentiality