PS381 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Demand Characteristics, Psychopathology
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Diagnosed groups vs. range of normal variation. Diagnosed social phobias vs. those who do not, or compare high"s vs. lows on a social anxiety scale in a normal population. Analog studies : apply results of a study of undiagnosed individuals (ex. Those who score high and low on an individual difference scale) Easy to find pathological symptoms in normal populations. Gives you a starting point of why. Sometimes seen as more useful and instructive to pathological disorders and sometimes less. Varies with view of psychopathology as being dimensional or categorical. Dimension : disorder is only a matter of degree (how much or little of symptoms they have), not in kind of disorder. Categorical : disorder reflects a qualitative difference. : here analog studies do not tell you much about disorders. Manipulated conditions are expected to differentially affect the behaviour of the groups.
