PSYCO241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Concurrent Validity, Individual Psychological Assessment, Predictive Validity

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The systematic evaluation and measurement of psychological, biological and social factors in an individual presenting with possible psychological disorder. Idiographic understanding - an understanding of a particular individual. Assessment - simply the collecting of relevant information in an effort to reach a conclusion. Clinical assessment - is used to determine whether, how. and why a person is behaving abnormally and how that person may be helped. You are testing/measuring what you think you are testing/measuring. Construct validity the test captures the whole construct being measured. Face validity the question appears to be assessing the construct being measured. Predictive validity the test is able to indicate what might happen in the future. Concurrent validity findings of this test appropriately relate to other variables it should be related to. High score on one anxiety test should yield a high score on another. The test/measure is consistent across situations, times and people. Inter-rater reliability the test is consistent across different testers.

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