PSY 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mood Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Acculturation
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Assessment and diagnosis: assessment methods, reliability and validity, diagnosis and dsm. Mood disorders: different between distress and mood disorders, diagnostic criteria and course of mood disorders, namely major depressive, persistent depressive, and bipolar disorder, biological, behavior, and cognitive theories of mood disorder. Assessment process of gathering information about an individual"s symptoms and. Diagnosis label given to a set of symptoms that tend to co-occur with one another factors that may aid in development and maintenance of the symptoms. Face test measures what it is supposed to measure. Content test assesses all important aspects of phenomenon. Concurrent test yields results similar to other measures that measure the same. Predictive test predicts the behavior, thoughts, or feelings it is supposed to. Construct test measures what it is supposed to measure and not something else measure/predict construct. Test-retest test produces similar results when given at two points in time. Alternate form two versions of the same test produce similar results.