PSYC36H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Attribution Bias, Systematic Review, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Week 2 lecture #2: tuesday january 12, 2016. Overview: basics of clinical research, treatment efficacy, treatment effectiveness, issues in evaluating treatments, evidence based practices. The scientific method: defining a problem, specifying a testable hypothesis (educated guess, choosing and implementing a research method, analyzing data, drawing appropriate conclusions, and communicating the findings. Important for efficacy studies; makes sure that the results are due to the variables and not external variables. Independent: could be the experimental manipulation or predictor variables. How well the results generalize to the general population; if you can replicate. Have a definition of this; have a preset prediction of what response is across a variety of studies. D= (sum of 1)-(sum of 2) / s. Is it someone who shows improvement or who fully recovers. Might be a strength to actively seek more treatment: efficacy: highly controlled lab studies (internal validity), effectiveness: can be replicable in outside environments (external validity).
