[PSYCO239] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (43 pages long)
29 Mar 2017
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Clinical assessment is the evaluation and measurement of psychological, biological and social factors in an individual presenting with possible psychological disorder. The clinician might perform a general or formal assessment. Formal is for cognitive failures due to brain injuries. General is what is always done, and formal is very specific. Assessment tools must be reliable, valid, and standardized. Validity: you are testing/measuring what you think you are. Construct validity: the test captures the whole construct being measured. Face validity: the question appears to be assessing the construct being measured. Predictive validity: the test is able to indicate what might happen in the future. Concurrent validity: findings of this test appropriately relate to other variables it should be related to. Reliability: the test is consistent across situations, time, and people. Inter-rater reliability: the test is consistent across different testers. Internal reliability: the items in the test consistently measure the same construct. Test-retest reliability: the test produces consistent results over time.
