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What is a psychological construct? |
Any entity that exists in psychological space. Things like intelligence or anything that's abstract but we talk about it like it's a concrete thing |
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What us construct validity? |
How well your measures measure what you need it to. Comparing it to other psychological measures |
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What are meehls 6 main elements of a construct? |
1. To say what a construct is means to say what laws it is subject to: you can't disprove it 2. Laws may relate observable and theoretical elements 3. A construct is only admissible if at least some of the laws to which it is subject involve observables: needs to have evidence of else it doesn't apply to the real world 4. Elaboration of a constructs nomological net=learning more about that construct 5. Ockhams razor 6. Identity means playing the same role in the same network |
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What is a nomological network? |
The sum of all laws. A network of psychological components whose relations can be described by laws. |
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What are the components of a theory? |
So basically you have constructs which are related to each other by theoretical propositions. Do describe constructs you have observations which are related to construct by correspondence rules. And observations ate related to each other by empirical observations |
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What is a key point to how constructs are defined? |
The nature their relationship to other things. Constructs don't really exist...they exist in relation to other things |
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What are we doing when we validate something? |
We do not validate a test but validating a construct which is a principle for making inferences |
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What did Thomas szasz do? |
Thought it was bs to make mental disorders and thought psychiatry was scientistic and pharmacracy. Thought it was a lifestyle choice...not a medical problem |
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Psychiatric diagnoses |
If you use meehls definition then a disorder goes from is this a real syndrome to if we diagnose it..is it beneficial? |
