PSY 3171 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Psychopathy Checklist, Thematic Apperception Test, Psychopathy
1 Oct 2016
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Abnormal psychology textbook notes - chapter 3: clinical assessment and diag- nosis. Clinical assessment > systematic evaluation and measurement of psychological, biological, and social factors in a in individual presenting with a possible psychologi- cal disorder. Diagnosis > process of determining whether particular problem meets all the crite- ria for a psychological disorders according to the dsm (diagnostic and statistical. Clinician beings by collecting a lof of information across a broad range of individual"s functioning to determine where source of problem may lie. Reliability > degree to which measurement is consistent. Inter rater reliability > two or more raters will get the same answers. Test-retest reliability > whether technique is stable across time. Validity > whether something measures what it"s designed to measure. Concurrent/descriptive validity > comparing the results of one assessment measure with the results of others that are better known allows to begin to determine valid of first measure.
