Clinical Psychology - Key Words OCR
Key terms from clinical psychology specification.
OCR
- Created by: max fisher
- Created on: 11-05-13 15:53
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- Clinical Key Words
- Abnormality
- Statistical: Abnormality referring to behaviours which are statistically infrequent. Said behaviours deviate significantly from average , seen as abnormal
- Social Norms: Behaviours that break society's norms. Sid behaviours deviate from social rules or moral standards
- Reliability
- The consistency of a method as it is applied to the participants, measurable by the ability to replicate and also the consistency of the results found
- Validity
- Measuring what you claim to measure, and having findings based upon real situations and behaviour.
- Types of Data
- Primary: Data which is original that has been collected by those witnessed an event or have collected it for a special purpose.
- Secondary: Second hand analysis of primary data (pre-existing) which has been collected by someone else.
- Schizophrenia
- A psychotic mental disorder in which an individual loses touch with reality. It's characterised by symptoms, typically hallucinations
- Abnormality
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