PSYC 3390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Inter-Rater Reliability, Concurrent Validity, Mood Disorder
27 Jan 2016
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Chapter 3: Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
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Document Summary
Clinical assessment: systematic evaluation and measurement of psychological, biological and social factors in an individual presenting with a possible psychological disorder. Diagnosis: process of determining whether the particular problem afflicting the individual meets all the criteria for a psychological disorder. Process of assessment is likened to a funnel. Reliability: the degree to which a measurement is consistent. We expect that presenting the same symptoms to different psychologists will get the same diagnoses. We need interrater reliability and test-retest reliability. Validity: whether something measures what it is designed to measure. Concurrent validity if results on one assessment match the results of a better known assessment. Predictive validity is how well your assessment tells you what will happen in the future. Standardization: the process by which a certain set of standards is determined for a technique to make its use consistent across different measurements.
