✦ LIBER ✦
Reliability and sensitivity of performance tests in human psychopharmacology. A commentary on the articles by parrott (1991), human psychopharmacology, 6, 1–9, 91–98, 197–207
✍ Scribed by Brian Tiplady
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 218 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6222
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✦ Synopsis
This commentary argues that the conventional assessment of the reliability of psychological tests may be inappropriate in psychopharmacology. The conventional approach depends upon the assessment of differences between individuals rather than changes within individuals. It thus favours measures of trait, while those required for investigating drug-induced changes are measures of state. The sensitivity of a measure to change is a more useful criterion (or inclusion in a test battery for the investigation of the effects of drugs.