Clinical Psychology
Name 2 of the 5 anxiety related disorders
panic disorder
specific phobia
GAD
social anxiety
OCD
Which one of the following is NOT a stage of Piaget's cognitive developmental theory?
A sensorimotor
B formal operational
C perceptual
D preoperational
C perceptual
Define neuroticism
Being prone to being easily emotionally aroused, sometimes uncontrollable negative emotions
What is a control group?
A A group who receives the experimental treatment.
B A group who receives the alternative experimental treatment.
C A group who does not receive the experimental treatment.
D A group who are receive the experimental treatment in a replication study.
C A group who does not receive the experimental treatment.
Which of the following is not a component of Corrigan's Model of self stigma?
A.Awareness
B.Agreement
C.Application to self
D. Damage to self
E. Psychoeducation
E. Psychoeducation
Which type of stress is noted as potentially required for some specific dietheses?
A. traumatic experiences
B major life changes
C accumulation of 'hassles'
D all of the above
D all the above
Which of these is NOT a strength of the repeated measures design
A Participants control for their own individual differences
B Requires fewer participants
C Participants will find it hard to guess the purpose of the study
D It helps us track change over time
C Participants will find it hard to guess the purpose of the study
Name the big 5 personality traits?
Extraversion/introversion, openness to experience, neuroticism/stability, conscientiousness, agreeableness
What are 2 reasons why people obeyed in Milgram's electric shock experiment?
reasons include: the authority figure has a high status, people believed the authority figure was responsible for their actions rather than the participant, the situation escalated gradually
What would be the null hypothesis for an independent samples t-test?
A The sample mean will not be significantly different from the population mean.
B One population mean will be significantly lower than the other.
C There will be no significant change over time.
D There will be no significant difference between the population means.
D There will be no significant difference between the population means.
State and define three components of the cognitive-behavioural paradigm?
What is a weakness of Piaget's theory of cognitive development?
doesn't consider social or cultural aspects of development, doesn't talk about mechanisms, stages are not nuanced enough, underestimate abilities of some children
What are the 3 different types of studies used to investigate the influences of genetics on personalities?
Family, twin, adoption
What is pearson’s r:
A A measure of the number of values that are free to vary in a sample.
B A measure of variance.
C Another name for a repeated measures t-test.
D A measure of correlation in a sample.
D A measure of correlation in a sample.
What are 5 things that should be included in a hypothesis?
Sample
IV
DV
Relationship between IV and DV
Both sides of a comparison