PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Observational Techniques, Parenting Styles, Predictive Validity
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all clinical assessment procedures are more or less formal ways of finding out what is wrong with a person, what may have caused a problem or problem, and what steps may be taken to improve the individual"s conditions. procedures also used to evaluate the effects of therapeutic interventions. reliability: consistency of measurement, inter-ratter reliability. degree to which two independent observers or judges agree: test-retest reliability. measures extent to which people being observed twice or taking the same test twice, perhaps several weeks or months apart, score in generally the same way. validity: related to whether a measure fulfills its intended purpose, unreliable measure will not have good validity because unreliable measure does not yield consistent results, it will not relate very strongly to other measures, content validity. refers to whether a measure adequately samples the domain of interest: criterion validity www. notesolution. com.
