PSYC 2130 : Detailed Lecture TWO Notes

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2130
• Professor: Krista Phillips

Document Summary

Critical issues in personality assessment (chapters 3 and 5) So call expert evaluations of so call people . Psychologists include different aspects in their personality assessments. Clinical psychology, clinicians rely on actually psychological tests and evaluations. Different training, depends on the psychologists expertise. What you get in a check up by a psychologist depends on your theoretical background of the individual. Psychologists conduct on a clinical interview on their spare times. Observing someone can tell you a lot about a person. Getting a sense of what a person is like. Erwin silverman- he measures the amount of time it took the moment of first contact with a patient and how much time it relaxes until a diagnosis is put on the chart. A lot of diagnosis is based on the clinical interview. It takes 10 minutes for a psychologist to produce a diagnosis for a subject.