PSY 325 Lecture Notes - Psy, Dopamine Transporter, Dancemania Speed
3 Jan 2013
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Learning objectives: learn what is meant by evidence-based practice. Become familiar with key concepts used in treatment. Research and main treatment designs: understand the pros and cons of different research. Effectivensess- provides positive results in a usual or routine care condition that. May or may not be controlled for research purposes but may be controlled in the. Sense of specific activities are undertaken to increase the likelihood of positive. Or the outcome being measured as a result of the. Is the result confirmed to be from the treatments itself and not other variables. Case studies are valuable in that they: provide rich and unique detail about an individual (helps complex cases, can study rare problems, helpful for generating ideas and hypotheses. Case studies are limited insofar as: findings are not very generalizable (don"t have good external validity, observations and the conclusions drawn lack. Correlation (strength of the relation between the two variables) causation.
