Clinical Psychology
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- Clinical Psychology
- Defining abnormaility
- Two ways of defining abnormality.
- The statistical definition of abnormality uses the curve of normal distribution and assumes that any normal characteristic occurs in 95% of the population
- Therefore any abnormal characteristic occurs in 5% of the population
- The social norms definition of abnormality is based on what society sees as desirable behaviour.
- Anyone who deviates from such behaviour is classed as abnormal
- Schizophrenia
- Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder that affects about 1% of the population
- It ca cause disturbance in a person's thoughts, emotions and behaviours that can lead to the person withdrawing from social life
- Disgnosis
- Psychiatrists use a classification system to measure mental disorders such as schizophrenia
- The system must be both reliable and valid
- Data collection for research
- Primary data is data that you collect yourself using methods such as experiments, questionnaires and observations
- Secondary data is data that was collected by someone else and not the person currently using it
- A meta analysis is a way of accessing a large number of participants, especially if what is being studied is not common
- Defining abnormaility
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