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jparksx

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Research investigating the validity of judgments about mental health diagnoses has found that
 
  a. medical practitioners are more accurate than nonmedical practitioners.
  b. there is no difference in the accuracy of medical and nonmedical practitioners.
  c. nonmedical practitioners are slightly more accurate than medical practitioners.
  d. nonmedical practitioners are much more accurate than medical practitioners.

Question 2

Research has shown that clinical experience increases only slightly the accuracy of one's clinical predictions. ALL BUT WHICH of the following did the textbook offer as an explanation for this finding?
 
  a. The measures upon which mental health professionals base their predictions do not have high validity, so they are no more valid in experienced hands than in inexperienced ones.
  b. Once clinicians obtain job security, any enhanced accuracy from their experience is canceled out by a corresponding decrease in effort.
  c. Clinicians often receive no feedback about their predictions, so they cannot learn from their experience.
  d. Clinicians are biased toward remembering their accurate predictions and forgetting their inaccurate ones.



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manuelcastillo

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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

B




jparksx

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Reply 2 on: Jun 21, 2018
Excellent


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Gracias!

 

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