PSY 29200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Internal Validity, Group Psychotherapy, Unconscious Mind
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Research: research approaches, correlational, correlational is the relationship between two factors. Do not measure brain function directly: beha(cid:448)io(cid:396)al tests, (cid:374)ot a(cid:272)tuall(cid:455) (cid:862)(cid:374)eu(cid:396)al(cid:863, memory, concentration, attention, language, trail-making test, finger tapping test, goal: assess for organic brain damage, head injury, or neurological illness, cognitive decline. Cbt: all the negative emotions that are too intense or last too long could land people in treatment, emotions keep us alive and help us survive. If you do not die, fear goes away on its own. Hypothetical situations: get as sense of how the scale works for each person, use scale to track level of fear overtime, they are estimates and guesses, fear is usually around the middle; it can change over time. Then will keep it in that moment to allow the suds/fear to come back down without avoiding it: the patient must perceive it as a process that will help them.
