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Created by danniellerb94
about 11 years ago
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Question | Answer |
clinical psychology | clinical psychology is a branch of psychology that looks at mental health and focuses on three things: diagnosing-schizophrenia, explaining-biological and treating- drug therapy . |
social norms definition of abnormality? | when we dont comply to what people expect of us and break what society sees as acceptable behaviour. For example riding an exercise bike down the street. |
statistical definition abnormality? | when a person falls into the minority 2.5% of either extreme they are abnormal for example a high and low IQ. a person who would be considered normal if the fell into the majority 95% average IQ. |
validity in clinical psychology? | refers to the accuracy of the diagnosis.if the diagonsis is accurate then the patient can get the correct treatment. |
reliability in clinical psychology? | refers to the consistency of the diagnosis for example if more then one psychiatrist agrees on the same diagnosis for one patient, using the DSM. |
what is schizophrienia? | it is a psychotic disorder. an umbrella term that cause the inabilty to distinguish what is true and false and creates disterbances in emotional and behavioural/thought processes. |
what is primary and secondary data? | primary data is data collected by the reseacher and is seen as 'fit for purpose', secondary data is data previously collected and is not see as 'fit for purpose' |
issues and debates? | ethnocentric, a science, nature/nurture, social control. |
lab experiment | loftus and palmer, for psycho being a science -lab, high reliability, low validity. |
natural experiement | charlton et al, high validity, low reliability, against psychology being a science. |
field experiment | hofling, high validity, low reliabilty -true to life /no control, against pscyho being science. |
observation | ainsworth, against psycho, high validity, low reliability -naturalistic observation. |
case study | genie, low reliability, high validity -except population validity, against psycho. |
care in the community | to provide treatment and support in a social way, to rehabilitate individuals, a variety of services avaliable. an example is ACT-helps schizos with frequent relapses, main focus is independece, rehabilitation, recovery and it uses multi agency. |
an advantage and disadvantage of care in the community | +individuals prefer community care - lack of close supervision may result in individuals dropping out. |
an advantage and disadvantage of ACT | + bond -looked into the effectivness of it and concluded that it was highly effective. - maybe a genuine idea but it costs less then hospitalisation. |
nature and nurture | all approaches have both a nature/nurture aspect. contributions from the nature/nurture debate:gender development, attachment behaviour, aggression. composite explanation(conclusion) |
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