PSY 3604 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Psychological Testing, Psy, Convergent Validity
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Psy 3604 lecture 5: clinical assessment, diagnosis, and treatment approaches. Taking a sample of behavior can generalize and connect to behavior outside of the controlled setting. Used for diagnosis, analyzing future behaviors, intervention, and progression of treatment. The information to gather in your assessment include. There are four procedures that are involved in a psychosocial assessment. All these procedures can be referred to as tests, as they are all ways to gather information. Structured are pencil and paper tests, emphasis on symptoms. Very reliable, but barely used in practice. Role playing, thinking aloud/stream of consciousness, event reenactment are also used during these observations. Some of the things that are observed. Whether or not one is displaying appropriate behavior. Cognitive abilities: iq tests, memory tests, processing tests, motor tests. Alfred binet (a french psychiatrist) created the first example of an effective iq test. The test correlated with teacher ratings and improved predictions of success in the classroom.
