PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Beck Depression Inventory, Qualitative Property, Craniotomy
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Chapter 3: clinical assessment: reliability and validity in assessment. The exam: reliability: consistency in measurement; measured by correlation. Inter-rater reliability: consistency of raters to come to the same conclusion: test-retest reliability: used when something is fixed and, alternate-form reliability: same format with different items (like diff versions of the same final exam) Interpreting test results: the concept of normative comparison , t-scores, full-scale profile, test scores. 30: projective techniques, projective hypothesis, the notion that highly unstructured stimuli are necessary to bypass defenses in order to reveal unconscious motives and conflicts, psychodynamic paradigm, projective techniques, tests of personality that involve use of unstructured stimulus materials. If we want a more specific psych test to why the person is seeing us, we can use certain specified test measures: trauma symptom inventory, a 100 item measure that specifically measures posttraumatic. Janet was involved in a mva on june 29, 2005.
