Lecture 6.2

Question 1

biases in clinical practice

Answer 1

• test popularity
• confirmation bias
• availability heuristic
• extreme information
• own theoretical orientation
• client factors e.g. cultural biases

Question 2

semantic equivalence

Answer 2

• whether words mean two different things

Question 3

content equivalent

Answer 3

• wether the associations vary

Question 4

criterium equivalence

Answer 4

• e.g. disease is talked about more openly in Africa

Question 5

technical equivalence

Answer 5

• e.g. when asking a question twice, Asian people think they gave the wrong answer

Question 6

actuatorial prediction

Answer 6

• Bornstein

- only based on statistic

Question 7

perfect sensitivity

Answer 7

• no type I error

- no false alarm

Question 8

perfect specificity

Answer 8

• no type II error

- no misidentifications

Question 9

predictive accurarcy

Answer 9

• specificity

Question 10

humans processing frequencies

Answer 10

• better at natural then conditional

Question 11

type II is worse when

Answer 11

• e.g. discharge from psychiatry

- e.g. remedy for serious illness

Question 12

when researchers measured a lot of unrelated variables

Answer 12

• they were probably not thinking about what they wanted to find out

Question 13

solutions for better research

Answer 13

• preregistration

- Bonferi correction (p values divided by number of tests)