Temerlin et al 1970

Question 1

aim

Answer 1

test the effect on confirmation bias on diagnosis

Question 2

procedure

Answer 2

Clinical Psychologists watched the interview of a young man. In the test group, they heard a respected clinical psychologist describe the man as presenting neurotic, while he was actually psychotic

After viewing the tape, they were asked to give their best guess diagnosis from a list of 30 where 10 were psychotic disorders, 10 were neurotic and 10 were miscellaneous personality types

independant samples design

lab experiment

Question 3

results

Answer 3

In the control group, nobody diagnosed the gentleman as psychotic. However, 60% of the experimental groups did