Psychology 2320A/B Lecture Notes - Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement, Exposure Therapy

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2320A/B
• Professor: Elizabeth Hayden

Document Summary

They spell out what questions to ask, how to ask to ask them and how to follow them up (often), how to interpret and code the answers (often), what order to ask them in. Not formally used for diagnosis; widely used in research and practice to get information on child symptoms. Parents > children for child externalizing behaviour and symptoms; may be more accurate for these. Externalizing = disruptive, oppositional, defiant, rule breaking, etc. Children > parents for child internalizing symptoms; may be more accurate for these. Self-report important for internalizing symptoms; informants important for externalizing. Participants screened for other diagnoses, age, language, intellectual ability,, etc. to form a homogenous group. Allows specific claims re: who will be helped by treatment. To do this, treatment studies develop a treatment manual. Acceptability= how tolerable a treatment or therapy is to a patient. If acceptability is low, this may lead to .