Psychology 3301F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Wet Nurse, Psych, Startle Response

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3301F/G
• Professor: Peter Hoaken

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Lecture 4: finishing assessment and intro to psychopathology. Interrater the measure were using will allow 2 clinicians to rate the same. We need to consider we can sometimes overestimate reliability because of chance. We use the statistic kappa because eit accounts for the possibility that the agreement is exclusively because of chance. Examined clinicians making diagnosis using objective and projective measures. Clincians had to do a qsort give outcome and had to match. Tat: kappa=. 27 littl to be quantified or operationalized. Assessment relies on tools but is also fundamentally biasd by clinicians and whatthey bring to the table. Clinician needs to diagnose based on a paragraph with one variable being altered and that"s variable of bias (cid:523)white or black, male or female(cid:524) and that one variable can lead to changes in which theyre precieved. White clinicans tend to make pajoritive comments about certain african. Black clinicians tend to make pajoritive comments about certain white vales (social life)