PS 272 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Montrose Wolf, Joseph Goldberger, Internal Validity
21 Feb 2017
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Research methods quiz answers: montrose wolf, -1. 0 to +1. 0, repeated measurement, cross sectional design, longitudinal, internal validity, proband, external validity, cross sequential, epidemiological design, multiple baseline, cohort. Treatment: how can we help people behavior in more adaptive ways. Hypothesis or educated guess that is testable. A research method to test the hypothesis. Dependent variable - the behavior influenced by the independent variable. Independent variable - the variable that causes or influences behavior. Internal validity: confidence in the independent variable causing the dependent variable to change. Extensive observation and detailed description of a client. Culture (or gender or race) and mental disorders. Statistical relation between two or more variables. Problem of directionality (i. e. self esteem and exercise) and third variable problems. Nature of correlation and strength of association. Study of the incidence, distribution and consequences of a particular problem or set of problems in one or more populations . Look at questions of prevalence and incidence .
