PSYC*3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Mental Age, Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography
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Important concepts: reliability (interrater, test-retest) ex. intelligence is relatively stable across tests, validity (concurrent, predictive) ex. is the test measuring what it is supposed to measure, standardization. Mental status exam (mse: systematic observation of behaviour (not interpretation, clinicians get enough information to determine presence of a pd. Structured or semi-structured clinical interviews: created and tested in clinical/non clinical settings. Physical examination: thyroid, tumors, subtances/toxins etc, to properly diagnose client. Abcs of observation: antecedents, behaviours, consequences. Determine cognitive, emotional, or behavioural responding patterns associated with a specific disorder/condition/sample (ex. Thematic apperception test (tat: widely used but questionable reliability and validity. Revised psychopathy checklist-r: assesses psychopathy, pai. Iq obtained: mental age / chronological age x 100, popular tests include, stanford-binet, wechsler scales for adults and children, verbal and performance scales. Haldstead-reitan neuropsychological battery: rhythm, grip strength, tactile performance, problems, false positives, false negatives, need for other assessment tools (imaging)
