PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Psych, Malingering, Construct Validity
22 Oct 2020
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Standardized procedures designed to measure a person"s performance on a particular task orto assess his or her personality, or thoughts, feelings, and behaviour. If the results of a diagnostic interview are inconclusive, psychological tests can provide some more information that can bemused in a supplementary way to arrive at a diagnosis. Ex. a client with schizo may be guarded during an interview and choose not to reveal information regarding delusional beliefs. Tests also yield important information such as personality characteristics or situational determinants of a persons problems. Tests are standardized (administered to many people at different times, and the responses are analysed to indicate how certain kinds of people tend to respond. Then peoples responses are compared with the statistical norms. Test norms are standards that are used to interpret an individuals score because the scrubby itself for an individual is meaningless without a comparison context. Usually expressed in terms of the mean scores obtained by speci c groups.
