Module 3 Flashcards
It refers to the process of evaluating and choosing among alternatives in a manner consistent with ethical principles.
Ethical decision-making
It is a part of the ethical guidelines of psychologists and means that information between a patient and a therapist cannot be shared with anyone.
Confidentiality
It means that confidentiality can be broken if the patient is a threat to themselves (such as being suicidal) or others (threatening to harm another person).
duty to warn
It is the process by which researchers working with human participants describe their research project and obtain the subjects’ consent to participate in the research based on the subjects’ understanding of the project’s methods and goals.
Informed consent
It is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States.
American Psychological Association
It should entail a number of factors including the psychologist competence, the clients culture, language, age, and the reliability and validity.
Test selection
Psychologists should make an effort to protect the security and integrity of the test materials they use. In other words psychologists should prevent the questions, items and other stimuli included in the psychological tests from entering the public domain.
Test security
It is understood generally as the need to protect individuals against large companies that care more about their bottom line than about people.
managed care problem
Psychologists utilize the _____________ to conduct psychological research.
scientific method
It should refer to changes in condition (psychological, somatic, physical, social, and cultural) reflecting favorable or adverse effects on the patients well-being”
treatment outcome
It can be defined as the performance of an intervention under ideal and controlled circumstances
Efficacy
It refers to its performance under ‘real-world’ conditions
Effectiveness
It refers to the degree of confidence that the causal relationship being tested is trustworthy and not influenced by other factors or variables
Internal validity
It refers to the extent to which results from a study can be applied (generalized) to other situations, groups or events.
External validity
How do Psychologists do Research?
● Experimental Method
● Quasi Experiments
● Between Group and Within group design
● Analogue Design
● Correlational Methods
● Case studies
● Metanalysis
