PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Neuropsychology, Parietal Lobe, Positron
23 Feb 2013
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All clinical assessment procedures are more or less formal ways of finding out what is wrong with a person, what may have caused a problem or problems, and what steps may be taken to improve the individual"s condition. The higher the correlation, the better the reliability. Validity is generally related to whether a measure fulfills its intended purpose. Ex. there is an interview that is often used to make an axis i diagnosis - it has excellent content validity because it contains questions about all the symptoms that are involved in axis i diagnoses. Sometimes these relationships may be concurrent (both variables are measured at the same point in time, and the resulting validity is sometimes referred to as concurrent validity) Abnormal psychology; chapter 4 - clinical assessment procedures construct validity - relevant when we want to interpret a test as a measure of some characteristic or construct that is not simply defined.
