Psychology 2310A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Chartered Management Institute, Mental Status Examination, Psychological Evaluation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2310A/B
• Professor: Kathryn Turnbull

Document Summary

Factors affecting quality of assessment: reliability, are the measurements consistent every time, test-retest. Does it do it well: types of validity, content, criterion, discriminant, construct, measuring what we think theoretically contributes to our construct/theory/concept, standardization. Face: standards and norms put in place to help ensure consistency, administration procedures, data interpretation. Psychological assessment methods: clinical interviews, unstructured interviews, asking questions based on experiences and what they deem important, structured, diagnostic interview schedule, primarily used in research, semi-structured. Scid: mental status exam, often used in clinics, personality testing. Important in psychiatry because a lot of psychiatric theories were built around peoples" personality traits: self-report tests, mmpi, mcmi, bdi, etc, projective tests, rorschach, tat, etc, behavioural assessment, observational methods, self-monitoring, thought records, behaviour records, etc. Intelligence testing: wais, wisc (weschler tests, look at various ways people can solve problems, neuropsychological assessment, halstead-reitan, battery of tests, brain imaging techniques, mri, cat, pet, fmri, ex.