PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Positron Emission Tomography, Grip Strength, Fluoxetine

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Guergana Roumenova Mileva;

Document Summary

Characteristics of a good system: reliability - give same measurement every tie. Inter-rater reliability - extent to which two clinicians agree on a diagnosis of a particular patient: validity - can the diagnostic system predict disorder accurately. Concurrent validity - ability of a diagnostic category to esttmate an individuals present standing on factors related to the disorder but not themselves part of the diagnostic criteria. Predictive validity - the ability of a test to predict the future course of an individuals development. Collect information on patient"s life circumstances/stressors etc. Contains disorders that are not quite thoroughly researched enough to be placed in section 2. More dimensional perspective, as well as pathological personality traits: diagnostic categories. Gambling addicition (new to dsm-5: criticism of dsm-5. Gender bias - greater diagnosis is probably in women even if there is no pathology present. More likely for a women to be diagnosed over male.