Dr. McCutcheon is trying to formulate a means of identifying people who are likely to develop antisocial personality disorder. H
e administers the MMPI-2 to several thousand people – some of whom do and some of whom do not have this diagnosis – and determines a specific MMPI profile for people with antisocial personality disorder. He then suggests that this can be used to accurately anticipate who will and who will not develop this condition. Dr. McCutcheon is using a ________ strategy in his work.a. nomothetic b. idiographic
c. standardized
d. culture-fair
A nomothetic method is performed by taking large data sets and applying quantitative analysis to produce general statements about social patterns. The social patterns in the data set account for some behaviors. The experiences faced by the data set can be a contextual evidence for displaying a social behavior. In the given study, antisocial behaviors in a population were studied through nomothetic strategy in which individual experiences and contextual evidence is collected to predict their antisocial behaviors. Hence, a profiling of set of experiences is done to anticipate risk of MMPI in humans.
