PSY240H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Blind Experiment, External Validity, Zygote
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__________: psychological assessment is the systematic gathering and evaluation of information pertaining to an individual with suspected abnormal behaviour. To fix this, experimenters may slightly change the test (ex. wording questions differently on a survey). People who take the clinical approach prefer to draw on all available data guided by intuition honed with professional experience: those who take the actuarial approach argue that a more objective standard is needed. They use scientifically validated measures to evaluate data: the actuarial approach is more efficient in terms of making predictions about relapse, dangerousness, improvement in therapy, etc. Tomography (cat): a narrow band of x-rays is projected through the head onto scintillation crystals at different angles, creating a. Gestalt test: the test contains 9 cards with lines and shapes drawn on them. A patient is asked first to copy them onto another card, and then to draw them from memory.
