CLP 3144 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Personality Disorder, Overdiagnosis, Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Clinical and Health Psychology
• Course: CLP 3144
• Professor: K E N S W A N

Document Summary

Chapter 3: assessment gathering info about people"s symptoms and, diagnosis label for a set of symptoms that occur together the possible cause of those symptoms. Measuring and assessing the accuracy of the test. Want to see if results of test yield same info as an objective and accurate indicator of what the test is supposed to measure. Face validity when on face value, the items seem to measure what the test is intended to measure. Content validity extent to which a test assesses all the important aspects of a phenomenon that it purports to measure. Concurrent/convergent validity extent to which a test yields the same results as other, established measures of the same behavior, thoughts, or feelings. Predictive validity if it is good at predicting how a person will think, act, or feel in the future. Construct validity extent to which a test measures what it is supposed to measure and not something else altogether.