Research & Psychotropic Medications Quiz (1)

A school social worker has decided to review the ratio of girls to boys in the second-grade class. To arrive at the ratio, he had to count the total number of boys and girls in second grade. This is an example of what type of data?

Qualitative data can generally include:

Which term describes a test that produces consistent results over time, in several different trials with the same variables?

A social worker is conducting a study on the effectiveness of group therapy in decreasing anxiety in adults recently diagnosed with high cholesterol. Which of the following refers to the extent to which the results of a study can be generalized to other situations and people?

What type of validity is a measure of how well a particular test correlates with a previously validated measure?

Which term describes the degree to which a research instrument measures what it is designed to measure?

A clinical social worker has created a test battery to measure patients’ level of depression to compare it to an existing well-established depression battery test. This is an example of:

A social worker is hired at a mental health clinic to create a depression inventory to predict future behaviors of patients with depressive symptoms. This is an example of:

A group of experimenters seeks to determine how eating fast food affects a person’s health. In this example, which variable is dependent?

A teacher is conducting an experiment to determine if the classroom temperature affects student’s test results. In this experiment, what will MOST likely be used as the dependent variable?

A nutritionist is interested in looking at eating behaviors in her neighborhood. She plans to distribute a survey and collect the data from all adults ages 21-50 and analyze the results.  This study is best described as using:

A social worker will be using a research design to test subjects over an extended period. This is an example of?

A research study is investigating the effects of parental smoking patterns on the adolescent’s likelihood of becoming a smoker. The research design is MOST likely a:

A psychologist is interested in looking at help-seeking behaviors in his neighborhood. He plans to distribute questionnaires to all registered voters and analyze the results. This study is best described as using:

A social worker administrator at a mental health services agency is interested in developing a new social skills program to help children with autism. The administrator divides the appropriate clients into two groups. One group will undergo the experimental social skills group, and the other will participate in an evidenced-based social skills intervention.  This research design best describes:

A clinical social worker is studying how a behavioral intervention on a 5-year-old client with autism can help improve the child’s social skills over the span of 8 months. This is an example of:

A social worker is creating a research study for a substance abuse treatment center. What is the MOST practical research design to use?

A teacher wants to evaluate whether a new technique to teach phonetics to her second-grade class is more efficient than the standard teaching method. The teacher randomly divides the class into two groups, “Group A” and “Group B.” What type of design is the social worker MOST likely using?

A social worker in a hospital setting meets with a patient diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa. Due to the severity of the patient’s health, the social worker immediately began implementing intervention techniques at the start of treatment. What method is this a reflection of?

A social worker has been meeting with a client for six months in a mental health clinic. The client was prescribed an antidepressant by his psychiatrist five weeks prior. During a session, the client stated that he feels his antidepressant makes him tired and “spacey.” He states he will stop taking the medicine due to these side effects. In this situation, how should the social worker respond?