PSYD33H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient, Inter-Rater Reliability, Psychological Evaluation
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Lecture 4 - psychological assessment & clinical assessment. Psychological assessment psychological testing: psychological tests commonly comprise a major part of the assessment process. Psychological test = the measurement of a sample of behaviour obtained under standardized and that has established rules for scoring or interpreting this sample. Many psychological tests; vary enormously in the scientific foundations and psychometric adequacy. People need to become well-informed of the tools necessary to distinguish scientifically supported and unsupported assessment instruments and to make valid judgements on the basis of the former instruments. First step in ensuring that obtained results can be replicated by another assessor. Standardization minimizes the influence of unique aspects of the testing situation and the assessor. Developers typically provide detailed instructions regarding the nature of the stimuli, administrative procedures, time limits, and the types of verbal probes and responses to the examinee"s questions that are permitted. Instructions are provided for the scoring of the test (some tests have complex scoring rules)
