PSY 395 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mental Health Professional, Research Domain Criteria, Confounding
21 Jan 2020
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Research of psychology: bene ts of research. Describe: learn about a disorder"s symptoms, prevalence, duration (acute, chronic), and accompanying problems: adolescence at grade 8 who has adhd has twice more romantic relationships that the adolescence who without adhd. Explain: understand etiology and nature of disorder: because they might get bored often, they might don"t know what is romantic relationships. Predict: discover how to provide the best patient care: how to avoid that, which college students with adhd would drop out. Case studies: speci c individual observed and described in detail, subject to bias of author of case study, conclusion have low generalizability. eg: high intelligence with hyper activity. Self-report data: participants asked to provide information about themselves, interviews and questionnaires. Borderline evaluation of severity over time. (adolescence: potential biases. Tuesday, january 21, 2020: collecting information without asking participants directly for it, outward behavior can be observed directly, biological variables can be observed via technologically advanced methods.
