PSYCH 215 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Rorschach Test, Face Validity, Predictive Validity
10 Feb 2017
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Clinicians gather idiographic (background ) information, to do this they use the procedures of assessment and diagnosis and then can offer potential treatment. Assessment: collecting relevant information to reach a conclusion. Clinical assessment : used to determine how and why a person is behaving abnormally and how that person may be helped tools used: clinical interviews, tests, observations. Tools must be standardized and must have clear reliability and validity. Standardize: technique to set up common steps to be followed whenever a tool is administered, the way clinicians interpret results must be standardized as well. A good assessment tool will always yield the same results in the same situations. Interrater reliability: if different judges independently agree on how to score and interpret it. Test-retest reliability: test yields same results everytime it is given to the same people. Validity: must accurately measure what it is supposed to measure. Face validity: makes sense but not accurat.
