PSY 322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Research Domain Criteria, Neuroimaging, Positron
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O evaluation and measurement of psychological difficulties in an individual: diagnosis, looks at post history, triggers, social & personality, purpose generally diagnosis. Assessment & diagnosis: clinical assessment, process of determining whether a problem meets the criteria for a psychological disorder. Do expect to see change but with consistent results: problems. Use different information inconsistency: process by which standards/norms are set for a particular. Standardization: interview/test: how, give interview to many people, determines average, test standards guarantee equality among clients, tests are administered the same. Dsm-5: describes a widely used classification to diagnose mental disorders, categorical/prototypical approach includes some biology but not much. Alternative to dsm-5: nimh (national institutes of mental health) gov"t research in. Rdoc (research domain criteria talks about development influences: looking for a biological & neurological markers, dimensional v. categorical, want to find the true nature of the disorder.
