PSYC 3140 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Observational Error, Biomarker, Personality Disorder
5 Oct 2015
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Clinical assessment: systematic evaluation and measurement of psychological, biological and social factors in an individual presenting with a possible psychological disorder. Diagnosis: process of determining whether the particular problem afflicting the individual meets all the criteria for a psychological disorder, as written in the dsm-5. Increase this carefully designing their assessment devices and then conducting research on them to ensure that two or more raters will get the same answers, called interrater reliability. Also determine if the techniques are stable across time, called test-retest reliability: validity: whether something measures what it is designed to measure. Concurrent/descriptive validity is comparing the results of one assessment with the results of another to determine the validity of the first measure. Predictive validity is how well the assessment says what will happen in the future: standardization: process by which a certain set of norms is determined for a technique to make its use consistent across different measures.
