PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lesion, Epilepsy, Adjustment Disorder
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No such thing as validity if no reliability. Test-retest reliability: scores on the first assessment and second assessment, if similar then high test-retest reliability, should be stable, but not in depression or other disorder. Alternate-form reliability: same format but item are diff (diff version of exams) Internal consistency reliability: all the items of the test consisting measures the same thing interrater reliability: having the same disorder diagnosed with diff raters. Content validity: it represents what you"re trying to measure fairly. Criterion validity: measure what it should proportionally measure (w/ Construct validity: two diff task, same performance, looking at the above @ the other test) same time. Behavioral observations: important b/c patients lack insight to their problem or they lie. helpful in coming up with a diagnosis. Pain inventories (e. g. , p-3; multidimensional pain inventory) The notion that highly unstructured stimuli are necessary to bypass defenses in order to reveal unconscious motives and conflicts.
