Words starting With an E
Experimental Research
Methods and Designs
approaches, designs, and more
Research Remix
100

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?

100

This type of variable is manipulated by the experimenter

What is the independent variable (IV)?

100

This research design emphasizes change across time often making within group comparisons from one point to another.

What is longitudinal design

100

In this design a treatment is alternately applied or removed

What is ABAB design?

100

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?

200

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?

200

These are the variables that are expected to change as a result of changes of the independent variables

What is dependent variable?

200

this method examines the relationship that exists between two or more variables .

What is correlational methods?

200

This study involves thorough and detailed examination of one unusual person or situation.

What is case study

200

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?

300

The generalizability of the result, or to what extent the same finding is correct for different settings or populations

What is external validity?

300

This group does not receive the experimental treatment

What is control group?

300

this design assess or compare a participant or group of participants at one particular point in time.

What is cross sectional designs?

300

This approach emphasizes/ reveals the unique qualities of each person and is often used in case studies

What is the idiographic approach?

300

The term used to define how well a particular treatment works.

What is treatment outcome?

400

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?

400

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?

400

In this design participants in different conditions receive entirely different treatments

What is between group design?

400

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?

400

A research design in which the same group of subjects serves in all treatment or condition groups.

What is within-group design?

500

The condition which receives treatment in a study

What is the experimental condition?

500

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 ?

500

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?

500

This approach determines similarities or common qualities among people

What is the nomothetic approach?

500

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?