Quiz Study Guides

For Quiz #1, students should know the material from the class notes and the following from the textbook:

Threats to internal validity (pp. 24-35).
Threats to external validity (pp. 36-48).
Construct validity (pp. 56-58).
Moderation and mediation (pp. 119-120).
Theory as a guide to research (pp. 124-129).
Efficacy vs. effectiveness research (p. 142).
The primary conclusion of the Ready and Clark (2002) study on the effects of psychopathology psychiatric patients' self-reports.

For Quiz #2, students should know the material from the class notes and the following from the textbook:

Differences between within- and between-subjects research.
Experimental group research designs (pp. 161-166).
Purposes of different types of control groups (no treatment, waiting list, attention placebo, yoked control).
Treatment evaluation strategies (p. 203, Table 7.1).
Accelerated, multicohort longitudinal design (pp. 246-248).
Visual inspection methods of data evaluation in single case research (p. 291-206).

For Quiz #3, students should know the material from the class notes and the following from the textbook:

The short-term and sustained effects of empirically-supported treatments, according to Westen & Morrison (2001).
Methods of assessing clinical significance (pp. 412-414).
Issues in normative and ipsative comparisons (p. 411).
Methods of increasing power (pp. 446-447).
Criteria for deciding whether deception is necessary in a study (p. 505).
Definitions of anonymity and confidentiality (p. 508).