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| construct groups or cateogories and assign people to them based on shared attrubutes or relationships |
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| why is classification needed? |
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-communication
-etiology-common causes
-treatment
-prediciton/prognosis |
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| Why shouldn't we classify? |
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| stereotype overclassification self-fulfilling prophecy |
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-clinical descriptions in paragraph form
-resulted in unreliable diagnosis
-not researched much |
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-still clinical descriptions
-criteria still too broad
-unreliability
-different systems in U.S. and England
-diagnostic system not correct |
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-specific criteria developed
-more reliable
-no more valid
-added 100 new disorders |
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-no major changes in structure
-minor changes in criteria |
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-criteria same, text different
-based on studies
-diagnostic looked more similiar across world
TR=text revision |
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| clinical syndromes-depression, anxiety |
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| personality disorders-mental retardation-difficult to treat |
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| general medical conditions-medical issues that would affect symptoms |
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| psychosocial and enviormental problems-poverty, stress |
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| global assessment of function-how person is acting in life |
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| extent to which information is correct-consistency |
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| extent to which raters get the same results |
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| test-retest (reliabiltiy) |
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| measures what is supposed to measure |
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| should correlate together |
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| accurately predicts future behavior |
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-unconstructed, constructed, and semi-structured
-really long
-can have human error or interpersonal factors |
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| personality inventories-list of how highly or lowely you rate on traits |
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| measuring normal human variatability, some sort of measure of bad stuff |
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| OCEAN-Neruoticsm, extraversion, openeness, agreeableness, conscientiousness |
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| think of self as self-important |
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| self discipline, aim for high achievments |
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| Pathological personalty tests |
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| want to be higher on these test-measure components of personality disorder |
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| measures symptoms and personality traits |
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-true or false items
-random questions
-easy to administer and score
-clinicians interpret their ways
-long time to take and 8th grade reading |
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-theoretical generation of test items
-each different disorder has a scale-means something independently from other scales
-adjusted results based on these scales
-can't hide disorder
-reduced reading level (4th grade) |
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-intellegence, strange situation, etc
-showed attachment style issues |
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| insecure attachment styles |
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avoidant
resistant
disorganized |
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| 10 ambiguous inkblots, complicated to learn, subjective, |
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| Newest version of Rorshach-RPAS |
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| simplified, shortened training time, imporved research base, aditional scales |
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