What's the difference between ideographic and nomothetic?

Ideographic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Ideographical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both are furthermore accessible to the ideographic discourse of subjective meanings and intentional acts.
  • (2) Of special note was the patient's superior written transcription of the ideographic symbols and the superior oral reading of the phonogrammic symbols.
  • (3) The result of our study showed that alexia in Chinese ideographic language differs from alexia in western phonographic languages.
  • (4) Areas for further investigation are identified, for example: the use of multiple outcome measures, the use of single-case studies and the development of ideographic assessment measures, the interaction of biological and environmental influences, the alleviation of the burden of care, the involvement of the consumer in services, the development of behavioral formulations and analysis of family engagement and compliance, staff training in intervention methods, and the translation of research results into clinical practice.
  • (5) The model indicates that aggregation effects should be controlled in analyses of matching and that the comparison of molecular theories of concurrent operant behavior with molecular models of matching performance affords ideographic analyses of choice behavior.
  • (6) The ability to transcode integers from ideographic to alphabetic script was assessed in patients with dementia of Alzheimer type.
  • (7) This antiquity is spelled out dramatically in the ancient Chinese-Japanese ideographs (in Japan called kanji), which remain in use today.
  • (8) Dyslexic and normal readers in second grade (age-range seven to eight years) and sixth grade (11 to 12 years) were given tachistoscopic presentations of novel visual stimuli (Chinese ideographs), randomly presented to the left and right visual fields and to the central fixation point.
  • (9) The population for this ideographic research consisted of a convenience sample of 10 children over the age of 5 years, attending an oncology clinic which served a medium-sized city and its surrounding area.
  • (10) Ideographic analyses further demonstrated consistencies in prevalence rates of DSM-III-R personality disorders.
  • (11) Outcome assessment was obtained from three sources: patient, therapist, and independent judge, using both nomothetic and ideographic measures.
  • (12) Chinese ideographs evoked it for subjects whose native language was Chinese, but not for subjects unfamiliar with that language.
  • (13) Stenography, a non-orthographic and syllabic-ideographic writing system, could be a model to investigate different hemispheric reading processes in Western subjects.
  • (14) According to Biederman and Tsao (1979), ideographic script yields more interference than phonetic script in Stroop color-naming task.
  • (15) Ideographic analyses suggested possible sex-linked and early experience twin effects.
  • (16) Two kinds of Japanese script were used as stimuli: Kanji, an ideographic script, and Kana, a syllabic script.
  • (17) When phonological processing is not possible (e.g., for arabic digits and other ideographic orthographies), the right hemisphere may have an advantage because of its superior visuospatial processing capabilities.
  • (18) Systematic errors in the transcoding processes were observed that could not be accounted for by the peculiarities of the two ideographic coding systems or by difficulties with direct transcoding rules.
  • (19) For example, the ancient Chinese ideograph for spleen does not mean spleen in the modern sense, instead it refers to the entire gastrointestinal system.
  • (20) Similarly, the ancient ideograph for kidney does not mean kidney in the modern sense, and can mean the entire endocrine system.

Nomothetic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Nomothetical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The nomothetic approach is the selection of the most unbiased scale tailored to the disorder under investigation.
  • (2) This previously unknown syndrome presented by the use of the idiographic method may contribute to the widening of nomothetic nosological research.
  • (3) The paper presented here is a contribution to the debate on the methodological dualism of hermeneutical and nomothetical procedures in psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic research.
  • (4) Recent developments in Rorschach psychology, including nomothetic approaches focused on scores, ratios, and indices and idiographic approaches focused on content emerging from psychoanalytic theory, offer the Rorschach clinician a rich and potent interpretive methodology.
  • (5) These conditions involve both nomothetic and idiographic processes.
  • (6) This highlights the well-known discrepancy between idiographic and nomothetic methods.
  • (7) The emphasis here is on both more recent studies and the value of subject replication in creating a confluence of idiographic and nomothetic approaches to the study of behavior and behavioral development across the lifespan.
  • (8) Nomothetic and idiographic content analytic approaches to the Rorschach are used in complementary fashion to explore the psychotic personality structure and primitive interpersonal models in a 37-year-old biologically normal male, who was a gynemimetic, that is, a transvestite who aspired to have the genetalia of a woman.
  • (9) Outcome assessment was obtained from three sources: patient, therapist, and independent judge, using both nomothetic and ideographic measures.
  • (10) Experiment 2 replicated this effect and demonstrated that there are systematic individual differences that are consistent with the general nomothetic model proposed.
  • (11) It elicits patients' idiographic accounts of their current concerns and patients' nomothetic ratings of them on variables related to commitment, active participation in goal striving, and goal valence, value, expectancy, and imminence.
  • (12) The psychometric aspects of these dimensions are analysed with reference to nomothetic and idiographic methods.
  • (13) Utilizing a combination of idiographic and nomothetic research designs with repeated measures in several breeds of dogs, we discovered stable constitutional differences in psychophysiologic reactions to repeated exposure to psychologically stressful situations.
  • (14) These findings are in contrast to those utilizing more standardized, nomothetic measures of personality functioning that suggest stability of personality in adulthood.
  • (15) Clinical medicine is the application of scientific principles, rules of thumb, and a store of practical wisdom embodied in narratives of individual cases to the care of a person who is ill. Physicians are taught to observe and report the individual case both as a means of fitting nomothetic generalizations to the given circumstances and as a way of refining those generalizations.
  • (16) An objective and nomothetic approach to quality of life has been demonstrated in this review when referring to the instrumental use of rating scales, e.g.
  • (17) Under a nomothetic perspective we apply a survival analysis and supplement this by a comparison of two single cases.
  • (18) Nomothetic comparisons are made between groups with higher base rates for violence with mixed results, although the sado-masochism frequency was significantly higher in severe psychopaths than in moderate psychopaths.
  • (19) Research must be conducted within a coherent field-theoretical conceptual framework, directed toward the formulation of nomothetic laws concerning patterns of drug use.
  • (20) A case history of an imagery client who improved during the course of therapy is discussed to show these relationships and the utility of a combined nomothetic and idiographic research design.

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