PSYC 435 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tabula Rasa, Psych, Behaviorism
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These are the main goals of research studies. Studying abnormal in children is very diff from adults. Very hard to define normal from abnormal in children. Can predict it and make modifications if needed. Wanna be able to predict for long term so maybe can improve things in order to have diff outcome in the long run. **dev and evaluate methods for treatment and/or prevention. Always talk about treating disorders but ultimate goal is preventing them from occurring in the first place. They invest resources in treatment rather than prevention. When it"s child, it"s the adult that brings them, caregiver or teacher etc. So unclear in some cases who has what prob. The adult is the one identifying the prob for the child but maybe the adult has a prob. The assessment part much more intense than for adult psych. Usually pro(cid:271)s (cid:449)e see are (cid:374)ot disorders (cid:271)ut they do(cid:374)"t (cid:373)eet de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal (cid:373)ilesto(cid:374)es.