Evidence-based therapies should be based on ____.
a. client culture, values, and beliefs
b. managed care provisions
c. meta-analysis
d. epidemiological studies
Question 2A researcher conducting a meta-analysis is accused of providing only one side of a story even though he accurately reported the information from the studies he used. How would this be possible?
a. The researcher did not publish the study for peer review.
b. The researcher provided information from too many studies.
c. The researcher looked at both published and unpublished articles.
d. The researcher only chose articles that contained the same information.
Question 3A researcher looks at many different research studies on a specific topic and analyzes the combined results of these different studies. What is the researcher engaging in?
a. correlational research
b. case study
c. quasi-experiment
d. meta-analysis
Question 4In addition to describing the distribution of disorders in populations, epidemiological research is also important for____.
a. analyzing the possible causal factors that contribute to disorders
b. describing treatment effectiveness for disorders
c. protecting the rights of research participants
d. encouraging the development of new treatments for disorders
Question 5A school psychologist was concerned with the number of children being diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). If she were interested in learning how many new cases of ADHD had been diagnosed within the last two years, she will look at ____.
a. concordance rates
b. incidence rates
c. sampling rates
d. prevalence rates