I am way, way out of my area of expertise here, so I am not even going to
attempt a direct answer.
However, I did want to raise a pedagogical issue. It seems to me that if I
were using this exercise either with undergraduates or high school
students, I would be more interested in how they justified their diagnoses
(i.e, what evidence did they draw from Blanche's behavior, is that
evidence appropriate to their diagnosis, etc.) than in whether their
diagnoses are correct. In doing so, I would be stressing that diagnosis is
difficult, requires a great deal of training, and is not something I would
expect them to be able to do accurately.
Vinny
Vincent Prohaska, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Psychology
Lehman College, City University of New York
Bronx, NY 10468-1589
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