PSYC 3530H Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Individual Psychological Assessment, Stereotype, Intellectual Disability

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3530H
• Professor: Brenda Smith- Chant

Document Summary

Classiicaion and taxonomy are the delineaion of major categories or dimensions of behavioural disorders done for either clinical or scieniic purposes. Diagnosis refers to assigning a category of a classiicaion system to an individual. Assessment evaluaing to assist the process of diagnosis and direct intervenion. Category discrete grouping into which an individual"s symptoms are judged to it or not it. Dimension taxonomy an atribute is coninuous and can occur to various degrees: both must be clearly deined. Interrater reliability whether diferent diagnosicians use the same category to describe a person"s behaviour. Test-retest reliability whether the use of a category is stable over some reasonable period of ime. Validity a diagnosis should provide us with more informaion than we originally had when we deined the category: give informaion about the causes of the disorder, course of development, and response to treatment. Clinical uility how complete and useful a classiicaion system is.