PSYC 191 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Individualism, Ingroups And Outgroups, Interpersonal Attraction

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 191
• Professor: Stephen Lindsay

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Clinical psychologists integrate science and clinical practice to understand, assess, diagnose and treat mental illness. Assessment involves differentiating between abnormal and normal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Assessment methods include behavioral observations, interviewing, and testing (neurological assessment methods for investigating memory, visuospatial skills) Methods: 8 participants- 3 females, 5 males. Presented for admission to 12 psychological hospitals in five us states. All patie(cid:374)ts arri(cid:448)ed at the hospital a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:373)plai(cid:374)ed of heari(cid:374)g (cid:448)oi(cid:272)es that said (cid:862)e(cid:373)pt(cid:455)(cid:863), (cid:862)hollo(cid:449)(cid:863), (cid:862)thud(cid:863) They did not reveal their true names/occupations, but were otherwise truthful and acted normally. Length of hospitalization ranged from 7 - 52 days (average 19) None of the participants was found to be by the staff (although some other patients noticed!) Setting greatly influenced the professionals interpretation of behaviour healthy were distinguished from mentally ill (cid:862)if the(cid:455)"re here, the(cid:455) (cid:373)ust (cid:271)e (cid:272)raz(cid:455)(cid:863) attitude (cid:862) sti(cid:272)ki(cid:374)ess(cid:863) of diag(cid:374)osti(cid:272) la(cid:271)el.