Abnormal Psychology Chp-1 Worksheet

Identify the structure of a gene and characteristics it controls.
Study of how genes translate hereditary information.
Same person serves as the subject in both the experimental and control conditions.
Agreement ratios between people diagnosed as having particular disorder and their relatives.
Exp. neither the person giving the treatment nor receiving know whether the participant is in the Experiment or control group.
The potential for growth and change throughout life.
People could develop self-control over their behaviors if they had a quiet and restful environment.
Cutting a hole in the skull to allow so called "evil spirits" to escape.
Label that causes certain people to be regarded a different, defective, and set apart from mainstream members of society.
Biological, psychological,and sociocultural factors influencing the development of the individual.
Participants receive treatment similar to the experimental treatment but lacking the key feature of the treatment of interest.
Researcher test the relationships between variables that they cannot experimentally manipulate.
Variable whose level is adjusted or control by the experimenter.
Tool used to gather information from a sample of people of a particular population, participants are asked to answer questions about the topic of concern.
Analyzing data, complex relationships that do not easily lend themselves to conventional statistical methods.