PSY240H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Thematic Apperception Test, Animal Testing, Heredity
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Has the client exp symps similar or diff to the current ones at some time in the past: fam history of psych disorders. Friends and fam, amount of contact, and quality of these r"ships. Test produces same results when given two points in time. Two versions of same test produce sim result. Diff parts of same test produce sim results. Test appears to measure what it"s supposed to measure. Test yields the same results as other measures of the same behaviour, thoughts or feelings. Test predicts the behaviour, thoughts, or feelings it is supposed to measure. Test measures what it"s supposed to measure and not something else. Used when neurological impairment or dysfn is suspected: ex// brain injury in car crash; ad-related dementia. However, inferences and dysfns even in the absence of physically observable damage or probs that may be observed w/ brain imaging techs (ex// ct-scans)
