PSYC37H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Skewness, Quartile, Standard Deviation
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Mid-term exam: wednesday, november 4th o. 5-7pm: ac223, read the ethics document, don"t just rely on lecture slides for the exam. Application of ethical principles: a competent counsellor who has received extensive training in the interpretation of the mmpi continues to use this instrument even though it has been superseded by the more recent mmpi-2. His rationale is simply that there is a large body of research on the mmpi and he feels secure about his interpretation of elevated scores on the. Mmpi, whereas he know very little about the mmpi-2. He intends to switch over to the mmpi-2 at some future date, but finds no compelling reason to do so immediately. Same underlying model and framework between the two versions. Key differences in newer versions are usually around language. Norms may vary a lot between versions. School boards usually get a deadline for when to become familiar with the new version.
