RE:[tips] Top 10 Reasons Research needed to determine Efficacy
Hi Thanks Scott, Gary, and Annette for the great help. Here's what I ended up with based on your suggestions and some searching around to see what students would find with Google. In the process I came across the nice paper by Joan McCord on Cures that Harm in the area of delinquency prevention. See http://www.unc.edu/~gsmunc/JoanMcCord/CuresThatHarm2003.pdf ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY - ACTIVITY 2 ORIGINS OF FALSE BELIEFS ABOUT TREATMENT EFFICACY Historically and even today, people have unwarranted confidence in the effectiveness (efficacy) of untested treatments for various medical and psychological disorders. Below are some factors that could bias such false beliefs. Select 6 randomly, find an explanation for the bias, and then describe briefly how it could lead to false beliefs about the effectiveness (or lack of effectiveness) of treatment. Submit a brief summary to j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca with psy3700-02-### in the subject line, where ### is your student number. We will discuss this exercise next Monday in class, including how different biases may be similar. 1. Regression to the Mean 2. Placebo Effect 3. Spontaneous Recovery 4. Misdiagnosis 5. Confounding Variables 6. History as Threat to Validity 7. Self-Fulfilling Prophecy 8. Resentful Demoralization 9. Confirmation Bias 10. Illusory Correlation 11. Selective Memory Failures 12. Demand Characteristics 13. Missing Counterfactual 14. Cognitive Dissonance 15. Maturation as Threat to Validity 16. Availability Heuristic 17. Survivor Bias Thanks again. Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor & Chair of Psychology j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca Room 4L41A 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax Dept of Psychology, U of Winnipeg 515 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0R4 CANADA --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=22866 or send a blank email to leave-22866-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<>
RE:[tips] Top 10 Reasons Research needed to determine Efficacy
I don't get the digest version, and I didn't get an attachment either. Original message From: Michael Palij >Uh, what table? I get Tips in digest form and there was no>table and Scott's post does not show up on mail-archive.>>-Mike Palij>New York University>m...@nyu.edu>>--- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=22859 or send a blank email to leave-22859-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE:[tips] Top 10 Reasons Research needed to determine Efficacy
Hi As Annette noted a few days ago, digest readers do NOT get attachments. Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor & Chair of Psychology j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca Room 4L41A 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax Dept of Psychology, U of Winnipeg 515 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0R4 CANADA >>> Michael Palij 13-Jan-13 8:12 AM >>> > Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 17:38:16 +, Scott O. Lilienfeld wrote: > > Hi Jim...I know that this is more than you asked for, but just in >case, here's a Table (attached) we compiled for a recently >submitted review article (probably best not to cite just yet, >but of course feel free to draw from). As we note in the article, >the list is surely not comprehensive, but it may be a good >working start. ...Scott Uh, what table? I get Tips in digest form and there was no table and Scott's post does not show up on mail-archive. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a891720c9&n=T&l=tips&o=22857 or send a blank email to leave-22857-13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a89172...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=22858 or send a blank email to leave-22858-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<>
RE:[tips] Top 10 Reasons Research needed to determine Efficacy
> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 17:38:16 +, Scott O. Lilienfeld wrote: > > Hi Jim...I know that this is more than you asked for, but just in >case, here's a Table (attached) we compiled for a recently >submitted review article (probably best not to cite just yet, >but of course feel free to draw from). As we note in the article, >the list is surely not comprehensive, but it may be a good >working start. ...Scott Uh, what table? I get Tips in digest form and there was no table and Scott's post does not show up on mail-archive. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=22857 or send a blank email to leave-22857-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Top 10 Reasons Research needed to determine Efficacy
I emphasize the problems of confirmation biases, post hoc fallacies, illusory correlations, and self-serving biases as promoting the overconfidence typically seen when treatment advocates are not concerned about systematically assessing efficacy. I stress the idea of control/comparison groups and predictive hypotheses to help overcome (some of) these biases. Thus, students can see one major problem was not thinking/noticing conditions where people did NOT improve, or those that improved WITHOUT treatment (I have them think of this four-fold table). Also good opportunity to discuss problems with naive observation/intuition and personal experiences versus systematic and controlled tests of our ideas. G.L. (Gary) Peterson,Ph.D Psychology@SVSU On Jan 12, 2013, at 12:17 PM, "Jim Clark" wrote: > Hi > > I'm curious what people would identify as among the top 10 (or 5 or whatever) > reasons that we need research to determine the efficacy of treatments for > psychological disorders. I'm thinking of an exercise were students try to > explain why people once believed in ineffective and even harmful treatments > (e.g., bloodletting), setting the stage for understanding the need for well > designed research. Or if people know of a concise statement of these, that > would be great as well. > > Take care > Jim > > > James M. Clark > Professor & Chair of Psychology > j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca > Room 4L41A > 204-786-9757 > 204-774-4134 Fax > Dept of Psychology, U of Winnipeg > 515 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB > R3B 0R4 CANADA > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: peter...@svsu.edu. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13445.e3edca0f6e68bfb76eaf26a8eb6dd94b&n=T&l=tips&o=22843 > or send a blank email to > leave-22843-13445.e3edca0f6e68bfb76eaf26a8eb6dd...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=22845 or send a blank email to leave-22845-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
