PSYC 3930 Study Guide - Final Guide: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Attention, Multisystemic Therapy
13 Dec 2015
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Chapter 9 assessment: integration and clinical decision making. Biases: judgements that are different than what a person should conclude based on logic. Case formulation: description of a patient that provides information on their life situation, current problems, and set of hypotheses. Computer-based interpretations: computer generated reports that match a patient"s psychological test patterns in summaries and compares with other people with similar results. Heuristics: mental shortcuts that make decision making easier and faster but lead to less accurate decisions. Retrospective recall: using data that rely on people to remember events that happened to them in the past. Self-serving attributional bias: tendency to take more personal credit for success than for failures attributing success to internal causes. Therapeutic model of assessment: approach to psychological assessment where the client participates in discussion about the reasons for assessment, results of the testing and ways the assessment data should be integrated and interpreted.
