Sentences with phrase «assessing inferential»

The researchers asked 75 people with OCD to complete questionnaires assessing inferential confusion, schizotypal personality, dissociative experiences, strength of obsessive beliefs, and depressive and anxiety symptoms.

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Answering this question inevitably requires the judge to engage in a limited weighing of the evidence because, with circumstantial evidence, there is, by definition, an inferential gap between the evidence and the matter to be established — that is, an inferential gap beyond the question of whether the evidence should be believed... The judge must therefore weigh the evidence, in the sense of assessing whether it is reasonably capable of supporting the inferences that the Crown asks the jury to draw.

5) The Stress Reactive Rumination Scale (SRRS; Robinson & Alloy, 2003) assesses three cognitive tendencies in response to major life stressors: the tendency to focus on the negative attributions and inferences that characterises the negative inferential style (9 items; α = 0.90); the tendency to focus on hopeless cognitions (5 items; α = 0.94); and the tendency to focus on active coping strategies and problem - solving solutions (7 items; α = 0.83).

Negative inferential style was assessed at baseline in a sample of early and middle adolescents (N = 350, sixth to tenth graders).

Instead of using a trait measure to assess people's perceptions of the degree to which they are generally disposed to take other people's perspectives, the empathic accuracy approach requires people to infer another person's successive thoughts and feelings during actual interactions and then measures the actual degree of inferential accuracy that was achieved [22][23].