PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Internal Validity, Differential Diagnosis, Irreducible Complexity
12 Dec 2017
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Nigeria was the best: control groups = one group that does not receive the treatment (but how do you do this with therapy????, fake therapy (some activity that would mimic those things like going to the of ce, Self-report measures (asking client themselves to make judgement: beck depression inventory (based on cognitive behavioural approach, neo-personality inventory, youth self-report, impact of event scale. Part of the process of making a diagnosis. More accurate than questionnaires; people are less likely to lie to someone"s face vs. on a piece of paper. But interviewer can also in uence the patient (leading questions, double barrelled questions: objective measures. Imaging (functional/structural images of the brain > brain areas involved in a disorder, but often a poor single subject validity) Gure out something that it represents (rorschach inkblot test, tat, projective drawing tests) > u can reliably use rorschach to differentiate if someone has psychosis vs. not.
