Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Primary Care Physician, Intellectual Disability, Psychological Evaluation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: Ian Nicholson

Document Summary

Real people, real disorders cases of misdiagnosis: deafness vs. intellectual disability, epilepsy vs. schizophrenia, medication reaction vs. depression, brain tumour vs. anorexia, what is the difference between misdiagnosis and comorbidity. Impact of clinical significance: the major reason one is misdiagnosed is because of insufficient assessment and inaccurate diagnosis which leads to inappropriate treatment. And the usual properties of assessment instruments are . Interrater agreement: validity, construct, criterion, concurrent, predictive. Developmental and cultural considerations: age, developmental status, people involved in testing, nature of test chosen, testing environment, cultural factors. "culturally fair: administrating assessment tools to individuals from diverse backgrounds may produce biased results. Self-report measures (ask patients to evaluate their own symptoms: clinician-rated measures (clinician rates symptoms, types of assessments. Subjective responses vs. objective responses: clinical interviews, psychological tests, behavioural assessments, psychophysiological assessments, remember a patients "perception is their reality" when they report information related to the assessment.