PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Content Validity, Face Validity, Mental Status Examination
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Face validity-appears to measure what it should measure. Is it doesn"t make sense to ask the questions it doesn"t have high face validity: eg, showing up at a professional interview & being asked sexual. Content validity-assesses all important aspects of phenomenon: captures all aspects/dimensions, eg. Intelligence tests include memory components, comprehension, spatial etc, ppl have criticized that creativity isn"t included on most intelligence tests, therefore lower content validity. Concurrent validity-test yields the same results as other similar measures. Predictive validity-test predicts behaviour it is supposed to measure: most important validity test, eg. Testing for intelligence in children, predicting giftedness: gre less than one percent predictability for success for someone in grad school. Construct validity-test measures what it is supposed to measure: different from content-may have all dimensions but not actually measuring the thing the test is supposed to measure. Application of certain standards to ensure consistency across diff measurements. 1st thing, clinician focus on person"s presenting problems.
