A hospital clinician contacts persons who had been discharged from the hospital 5 years earlier, to see if they were re-hospitalized during that period. What type of research study is represented by the clinician's work?
a) case study
b) follow-up study
c) longitudinal study
d) correlational study
b
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Each of the following was an outcome that differentiated experimental and control groups in the Fast Track study within a year except
a. athletic skill. b. grades in school. c. level of social and emotional skills. d. amount of aggression.
Accelerated learning at a pace that is dictated by an adult rather than being responsive to the child's curiosity and interest
a. is known as forced teaching or "hothousing." b. is known as the "onestepahead strategy." c. effectively utilizes the process of accommodation in teaching. d. is the preferred method for encouraging formal operational thinking.
Which perspective proposes that personality develops from an interaction between a person's environment and the way he or she processes information?
A) Cognitive-behavioral B) Sociocultural C) Psychodynamic D) Social development
Which statement about the genetic basis of schizophrenia is true?
A. Adoption studies indicate no biological basis for schizophrenia. B. The concordance rate for schizophrenia is higher for dizygotic than for monozygotic twins. C. A person with a "schizophrenia gene" will always develop schizophrenia. D. Genes impart a susceptibility to develop schizophrenia.