COUC 515 quiz 1- real

Scientist Practitioners - YMental health professionals who are expected to apply scientific methods to their work. They must keep current in the latest research on diagnosis and treatment, they must evaluate their own methods for effectiveness, and they may generate their own research to discover new knowledge of disorders and their treatment. KScientist practitioners are aware the gold standard, which are: - Yempirically supported treatments (EST's) Kscientist-practitioner model is aka - YBoulder Model KEmpirically supported treatments are based on - Yclinical research that produces evidence of their efficacy KExamples of scientist Practitioners - YDr. Gottman and Dr. Everett Worthington KWhat is research? - Yempirical investigation of the relationship between two or more variable KWhat is Descriptive methods? - YDescribe the population that is under investigation KWhat is Qualitative research? - YThe narrative behind the numbers. A systematic, subjective approach to research that is used to describe life experiences and situations and give them meaning. KWhat are Correlational studies? - YPopular among social scientists. They use statistical calculations to measure the degree and direction of relationship that variables have with one another. The includes both positive and negative relationships. KWhat does Experimental designs include? - YInvolves an IV as well as a DV. The researcher manipulates the IV and evaluates its impact on the DV. May involve the use of a particular treatment such as CBT KCritical thinking - YResearches use critical thinking skills to determine the research topic—these skills are most commonly known as "Bloom's Taxonomy of Higher Order Thinking Skills KWhat are some changes to bloom's skills? - Ychanging the terms from nouns to verbs. Changing the term synthesizing, which reflected the concept of taking new information and combining it with existing info, was replaced by the term creating, which reflects making meaning out of findings KWhat are Bloom's Taxonomy of Higher Order skills? - Y1 remembering, 2 understanding, 3 applying, 4 analyzing, 5 evaluatin, 5 creating (bottom to top of pyramid) Ksystematic empiricism - Yusing observation to draw conclusions in a systematic, orderly manner KWhat is the best way to learn about research methods? - YWriting a research proposal KThe purpose behind creating a research proposal is to address an issue by: - Ydescribing, predicting, or explaining. KWhat are the seven steps of literature research processes? - Y1. identify a topic2. Background check3. Tools4. Learn database procedure5. Effective search techniques6. Read critically, synthesize, and evaluate7. Write KWhat would a good research paper have in the introduction? - Y1. What is the significance of the problem and what is being done about it2. What literature do we currently have?3. What does all of this mean4. Why should it be important to the reader?5. Peer review6. research questions7. hypothesis KSampling procedures: a sample is defined as - Y"a group that is selected to represent the population" - p. 25 KImportance of sampling? - Ysampling allows researchers to learn about a population of interest without having to involve the entire population in the research study KWhat are two sampling procedures? - YProbability sample- each participant has a change of being selected for the sampleii. Nonprobability sample- the probability of a participant being selected for the study is unknown and it may be zero for some p