Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Monoamine Oxidase, Bilateral Cingulotomy, Headache

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Placebo control group: gets intervention that is not expected to work but that controls for client expectations of improvement because clients are being seen by a therapist and think they"re getting effective treatment. Spontaneous remission: symptoms reduction in the absence of. Regression towards the mean: tendency for outliers in a data set to move closer to the mean value when measured for a second time. Social skills training: clients learn new skills by observing and imitating a model who performs socially skillful behaviour. Family therapy: type of therapy in which members of a family are treatment treated. Specificity question: which types of therapy, administered by which kinds of therapists to which kinds of clients having which kinds of problems produce which kinds of effects. Meta-analysis: allows researchers to combine the results of many studies to arrive at an overall conclusion. Effect size statistic: represents a common measure of treatment effectiveness.