Psychophysiological Aspects of the Development of Alcoholism

To overcome these problems, we use the author's approach to the concept of a statistical relationship (nonlinear, linear) in psychological and sociological research. In addition to the method of studying relationships, we offer a software implemented method for classifying dependencies. The study of nonlinear connections according to the author's method was tested in various psychological studies representing diverse areas of psychological science: psychology of preschoolers and adolescents, ethnopsychology, psychology of professions, psychology of trust, psychology of stress, theory of personality, psychology of parenthood, psychology of learning, measurement of value relationships of personality others ”, the study of family education as a factor in the formation of the semantic sphere of the child, the dynamics of the motivational and semantic formations of the personality of Dent, the study of dependencies in psychophysiological research, psychological typology of students, political psychology. On the basis of investigation of alcoholism, the problem of lack of linear correlations in the presence of the simplest non-linear connections, which leads to systemic errors at interpretation of results, is discussed. Specific results demonstrating errors of the 1^st type, when the linear correlation shows values close to zero, are presented. These connections are simply not taken in consideration, but in fact there is a real strong non-linear connection (maximum, minimum) that changes the picture of the phenomenon under study completely.