PSYC 4080- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 101 pages long!)
1 Dec 2017
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What is scz: what it"s not: split personality myth, clinical description: cases, epidemiology, course and outcome, schizophrenia science, quantitative tools for research synthesis. Basic facts: occurs cross-culturally, onset late adolescence, young adults, sex difference controversial, unclear, course and outcome variable, suicide and co-morbidities, clinical and biological heterogeneity, clues about etiology and pathology. Quantitative tools: categorical and continuous variables gender and age, range, mean, median, mode: 4, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7, 8. What is a large (or small) effect size: depends on context of research, depends on what else is available, no absolute rule . Essential stats in meta analysis: mean effect size (averaged over studies, 95% confidence interval for mean effect (margin of error, number of studies. Advantages of meta analysis: objective, systematic, comprehensive, quantitative, analytic, = the best way to evaluate evidence in a field of research! How do schizophrenia and multiple personality differ: mpd = no positive symptoms.
