PSYC 3140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Naturalistic Observation, Emil Kraepelin, Dsm-5
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Clinical assessment: how & why does the client behave abnormally. Assessment: process of collecting and interpreting relevant information about a client or research participant. Clinical assessment: determine whether, how, and why a person is behaving abnormally and how that person may be helped. Functional analysis: how behaviours are learned + reinforced. Standardization: process in which a test is administered to a large group of people whose performance then serves as a standard or norm against which any individual"s score can be measured. Reliability: measure of the consistency of test results. Validity: measure of the accuracy of a test"s or study"s results. Face validity: seems valid because makes sense + reasonable. Only use if has high predictive validity: predict future characteristics or behaviour or. Concurrent validity: degree to which the measures gathered from one tool agree with the measures gathered from other assessment techniques. Give special attention to topics they consider most important (bio, sociocultural etc)
