PSYC 3930 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Percentile, Temne Language, Panic Attack

• School: Fordham University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3930
• Professor: Jacqueline Helcer

Document Summary

Psychological assessment: systematic process that helps to identify possible disorders a patient may have. Generate hypothesis, gather info, refine understanding of problem, and alter or add more assessments, repeat. Intervention focused: identifying broad treatment targets (what tx worked and what didn"t) Screening: broad testing for disorders or illnesses assessing many people at one point. Casting net to try and catch anyone with a disorder of interest. Need to be highly sensitive (not getting false negatives) Case formulation: help with treatment ideas and where tx will be focused. Sensitivity: number of times an event is predicted compared to the number of times an even actually happens (tp/(tp + fn)) more sensitive, more likely to react and get a positive (slim chance of a false negative ) Specificity: can give false negative (tn/(tn + fp)) more specific and detailed so more difficult to get a positive result (slim chance of a false positive)