PSYC 481 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Content Validity, Outline Of Health Sciences, Eye Contact
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Validity measures what it claims to measure: validity cannot be w/o reliability, reliability yields consistent, repeatable results, consistency, repeated, reliability can be w/o validity, clinical utility benefits clinician and client, validity, reliability, and clinical utility. Validity * measures what it claims to measure. Content validity has content appropriate for what is being measured. Convergent correlates with other techniques that measure the same thing. Example: how can we diagnose this person with depression: using beck"s depression inventory, & talking. Discriminant does not correlate with techniques that measure something else. validity. Test-retest similar results across multiple administrations at different times. reliability. Interrater reliability yields similar results across different administrators. Internal reliability consists of items that are consistent with one another. All items on the test relate to one another. Clinical utility * improves delivery of services or client outcome: the interviewer, general skills, quieting yourself, minimize personal thoughts that detract from listening. Vocal qualities - how in addition to what.
