PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Meta-Analysis, Psychopathology
12 Jan 2017
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Cover clinical psychology: we will not deal in any detail with assessment and treatment. Make you a skilled diagnostician: the more experience you have, the less certain you are about diagnosis. Rettew et al (2009): meta-analysis(looked at many different studies) of agreement between clinical diagnosis and research diagnosis. Course materials: barlow et al, abnormal psychology, 4th canadian edition. Agreement (kappa) low to moderate for most disorders kappa = . 14 (affective and bipolar disorders) kappa = . 19 (generalized anxiety disorder) kappa = . 70 (eating disorders) kappa = . 27 overall. 20% of the midterm questions will be drawn from the required textbook. 10% of the final exam will be drawn from the required textbook. Studies show - people that take hand written notes do better on test then those that write via laptop. Http://intropsych. mcmaster. ca/psycho2ap3/ - thi(cid:374)gs o(cid:374) here that you wo(cid:374)"t fi(cid:374)d anywhere else. Pdf of course outline lecture recordings lecture slides test materials.
