Questions Below Will Be Based on the Following: a Researcher

question 142

Multiple Choice

Questions below will be based on the following: A researcher was interested in discovering whether attitude changes can be more effectively brought about when persons are made to feel part of the decision making process. A group of women was selected and randomly assigned to one of two groups, one group being placed in a large lecture hall, and the other in a small discussion-group setting. In the lecture setting, a speaker exhorted the women to use less expensive cuts of meat, whereas in the small-group setting a different group leader, although raising the same issues as the lecture had, also encouraged the subjects to participate in the discussion and offer suggestions, Several weeks later both groups of women were checked at home to determine whether they were indeed using the meat cuts which had been urged. Only 3% of the lecture group members had the meat cuts, whereas 32% of the discussion group members had the meat cuts. The difference was clearly significant.
-The design of the study was

• A) between-subjects
• B) repeated-measures
• C) matched-subjects
• D) none of these

Recognize the basis and techniques of behavior therapy, including the roles of counterconditioning, modeling, and aversion therapy.

Understand the concepts of spontaneous remission and the effectiveness of different therapy approaches including insight therapy and behavior therapy.

Grasp the impact of cognitive behavioral therapy techniques and the significance of addressing maladaptive beliefs and behaviors.

Identify and explain concepts related to therapy effectiveness, including placebo effects, therapeutic success measures, and factors influencing therapy outcomes.

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Definitions:

Attentional Filter

A mechanism of the brain that prioritizes certain types of information for processing while ignoring others, crucial for focusing attention.

Stroop Interference

A phenomenon that demonstrates the conflict between different information that the brain receives, affecting task performance, such as naming the color of a word when the word itself is a different color.

Cognitive Psychologists

Specialists who study mental processes including perception, thinking, memory, and problem-solving.

Mental Filtering

A cognitive bias that involves focusing exclusively on negative details and ignoring positive ones.