PSYC 2051 Lecture Notes - Multiple Choice, Behaviour Therapy, Personality Test
ABNORMAL PSYCH MIDTERM 1 REVIEW
Chapter 4
• Research, research methods
• Scientific Method
o Where do you start in a research study? - Question
o Sources, design a study
o Collect data→ analyze
o Know the order
• Study on certain population= what is the problem, how does it limit you?
o Very focused age group/population
o Generalizability is very important for research
o Age, education, ethnicity= not a lot of variety
o What we count here is true for everybody—That is not the case here
• Causality- need to apply experiment
o Cross sectional or survey would not get
• Reliability- if you measure the same thing repeatedly you will get the same
result
• Validity- how well the test measures what it is supposed to measure; is the
test measuring what you intended to measure
o That’s the problem with using our own measures
• Etiology- the causes of the diseases---think Bio/ Psycho/ Social
o Anxiety Etiology- environment, previous conditions, genetics
• 4 Goals of Psychology
o Describe- understand situation
o Explain- etiology
o Predict- what other behaviors might occur
o Change- improve behavior or cognitive state
• 4 conditions needed to diagnose 4Ds
o Distress-
o Dysfunction-
o Dangerous-
o Deviance-
▪ Ex: Middle-aged man normal health insurance, family, breaks
pelvis and cannot go to work/do normal things. He gets very
distressed and depressed. Would you diagnose him with
mental illness?
▪ No because he is not harming himself or others, only
temporarily disabled (pelvis not depression). This is an
acceptable and understandable distress that will probably fade
after he heals.
• Psychosocial Model/ Biological Model
o Medical/Biological- family history, current medical conditions
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