PS381 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dysthymia, Overdiagnosis, Hypomania
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Results of restraint breaking study: actual data confirm hypothesized interaction, addresses a mechanism that suggests how dieters struggle, possibly how pathological patterns of bulimic binging and purging develop, very high impact study. Individual-difference variable: e. g. restraint breaking (high vs. low, experimentally manipulated variable, e. g. preload vs. no preload, dependent variable, e. g. amount of ice cream eaten, prediction of an interaction, e. g. interaction between preload vs. no preload and restraint breaking. Under hypnosis can people be induced to harm others and themselves: early experiments suggested that they could. Importance of diagnosis to clinical practice: many possible client problems, discern main problem and its features, determine full set of problems, determine priorities for sets of difficulties, treatment planning. Importance of diagnosis to clinical research: clinical research using diagnosed populations, e. g. treatment efficacy, mechanisms in psychopathology. Monday january 29, 2018: it"s standard to teach graduate students how to administer structured clinical interviews.
