PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Beck Depression Inventory, American Psychiatric Association, Criterion Validity
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Research methods in the study of abnormal psychology. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders" (dsm-5) american psychiatric association. A syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in individual"s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological or developmental processes underlying mental functioning. Validity: validity, central question to validity, does a measure fulfill its intended purpose, validity is related to reliability, unreliable measures will not have good validity. Types of evidence: case study, epidemiological research, correlational method, experiment, meta-analysis, case study. Case study: historical and biographical information on a single individual, providing detailed description, case study as evidence, generating hypotheses. Case study: an example: john harlow and executive disorder, 1848. In place of the diligent, dependable worker stood a foulmouthed and ill-mannered liar given to extravagant schemes that were never followed through. As variable x goes up, variable y also goes up. As the number of hours you study go up, your grade also goes up.
