Question

A psychologist uses personality test scores to project which clients are most likely to benefit from a specific type of substance abuse treatment. The psychologist is pursuing psychology's goal of:

Answer 1

Answer:

In order to better help humanity, Psychology intends to understand people's behavior collecting information about how the mind and brain functions, having 4 main goals to achieve that: to describe, explain, predict and control such people's behaviors. Thus in the example above, The psychologist is persuing the goal of "prediction", which works toward quantifying the probability of that future health outcome.

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Answer 2

The psychologist is likely using a psychological testing which aims to pursue an objective and standardized measure of a sample behavior. It could be seen in the example above as the psychologist made use of the personality test score to project of which client is likely to benefit more from a specific type of substance abuse treatment.