PSYC 3083 Study Guide - Psychological Testing, Payphone, Agoraphobia
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* clinical psychological assessment process of collecting info in a: systematic, objective, empirical way about individuals intelligence functioning behavior personality so that predictions & decisions about them can be made. Are ethical obligations when engaged in psycho assessment must serve best interests of the client : must obtain consent ac assessment i. e. must have a good reason for doing it, must fully explain purposes of assessment, must revealing results in helpful way you are crazy learn to live with it not helpful, must inform person of their rights. 2) target stores (dayton hudson corp) some individuals were denied employment based on admin of personality test (mmpi) some in ca sued target claimed they didn"t see relevance of test items to jobs they were applying for also didn"t see how the test items would indicated their competence in doing those jobs (for ex there are questions about religion & sex)
