PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Psychosis, Intelligence Quotient, Neuroimaging

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Mark Coates

Document Summary

Understand issues of reliability and validity of psychological tests. Identify the domains that one assesses in a clinical evaluation (intellectual, emotional, interpersonal, behavioural). Determine the appropriate assessment procedure for particular disorders. Be aware of the controversies related to diagnostic systems and to psychological assessment procedures: assessing psychological disorders. Clinical assessment and diagnosis: clinical assessments are categorical in nature (ie. dsm, Icd) to get a sense of what the individual might have based on their symptoms. Indicates the nature and treatment that would be most effective (a direction) Dsm-5: nothing about maintenance mechanisms of disorders or etiology (x) while directing symptoms as behavioural or systematic (criticism) Reliability: items are consistent (across time: test-retest, and across people (inter-rater) Validity: does the scale measure the construct (predictive, face) Standardization: results of general and clinical population are compared, look whether the score of an individual is normal or abnormal: mental status exam.