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Research and Abnormality (Researching Treatment (Neurological Factors…

- - - - Response bias
        
        Social desirability
        
        Acquiescence
    - - Can be influenced by what people pay attention to, remember, and report
    - - Difference in reporting depending on whether the question was asked by an interviewer or in writing
- - - - Experimenter expectancy effect
        
        Where the experimenter treating patients in ways that encourage specific types of responses
        
        Double-blind design used to minimize this effect
      - Reactivity
        
        A behavior change when someone becomes aware of being observed
    - - Language translations
      - Different response biases
      - Sampling biases
- - - - Common Factors
        
        helpful aspects of therapy found in all types of psychotherapy
      - Specific Factors
        
        Characteristics found in specific types of treatment
      - Generally therapeutic treatment is better than no treatment, but different types of therapies have different strengths and weaknesses depending on the disorder
  - - - Differences in gender and ethnicity do not seem to affect how effective the treatment is
        
        Having a woman therapist has shown decreased rates of dropouts among both men and women
        
        For those that prefer to have a similar ethnic or racial background, matching the ethnicity of the patient and the therapist reduced dropout rates in people of color.
  - - - A placebo is given to the control group to measure the efficacy of the drug being tested
    - - Can effect the whether definitive conclusions can be reached depending on how the different demographics dropout