PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Psychological Evaluation, Observer-Expectancy Effect, Neologism
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Testing: comparison to statistical data specialist (aka referral: referral, gives us clues on clients: What individual is willing to do: sources: referral given by. Interview most common in adults: picking up a certain behaviour and a note of it, warnings. Observer bias: observer picks up what is expected, theoretical practice person is trained in causes bias. Only looking at behaviour at one point in time in an artificial environment: general appearance. Can indicate how client things of themselves: gestures and expressions. Can be subtle experience required to use this. Pay heavy attention, particularly in first meeting: motor acts. Both hyperactive and underactive could be indicators: verbalization. What and how things are being said. How: does it comply with age, intelligence, socioeconomic status: neologism making up words. Incoherent speech using words in sentences that do not go together: tangential speech rambling about subjects that are not.
