PS381 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Information Processing, Cherry Picking
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By adopting a particular theoretical perspective, clinicians can evaluate interpretations and inferences according to their theoretical consistency and can also generate additional hypotheses. Process and accuracy: clinical interpretation (inference jump) Influence of theoretical framework: this framework influences interpretation, can also help to generate new hypotheses. Samples, signs, and correlates: sample of general behaviour, sign of underlying state or condition, behavioural, attitudinal, or emotional correlate. Involves inference about individual in a particular situation (theory of the person) Involves inference about person in general: descriptive generalization; hypothetical construct) Behavioural clinicians: levels i and ii, typically seeks patient data based on personal observation or on direct reports from the patient or other observers. Psychodynamic clinicians: level iii, strives to identify inner states or determinants. Emphasizes objectivity and is presumably free from fuzzy thinking. Obtain scores for one or more relevant characteristics; use these to predict outcome i. e. insurance companies predicting when you will die.
