PSYCH 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Face Validity, Intelligence Quotient, Intellectual Disability
5 Feb 2017
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When receiving a new patient clinicians apply the models to assess patients but first they must gather idiographics. Idiographics: individual information about patients; allows clinicians to fully understand their patients to better help overcome their problems. To gather information they use assessment and diagnosis, and then they are in a position to offer treatment. Clinical assessment: how and why does the client behave abnormally: assessment: gathering of information in an effort to reach a conclusion. Tests can be standardized by first administering it to a group of research participants whose performance will serve as a standard against later scores. Ex: if a woman takes a test that indicates she is a heavy drinker, if she takes the test again a week later the test should yield the same results. To measure test-retest reliability the individuals are tested on two separate occasions and the scores correlation is measured, higher correlation, stronger test-retest reliability.
