PSYB32H3 Chapter : PSYB32 Ch 4
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Clinical assessments are used to find out what s wrong with a person, what may have caused the problem, and what steps may be taken to improve their cond t. > inter-rater reliability, the degree to which 2 independent observers/judges agree. Validity, related to whether a measure fulfills its intended purpose. :: unreliable measures will not have good validity. Content validity, whether a measure adequately samples the domain of interest. >> alternatively, criterion validity can be assessed by evaluating the measure s ability to predict some other variable that s measured in the future; this kind of criterion validity is referred to as predictive validity. Construct validity, used to interpret a test as a measure of some characteristic or construct that s not simply defined. > a construct is an inferred attribute such as anxiousness, that a test is trying to measure. Psychological assessment techniques are designed to determine cognitive, emotional, personality, and behavioural factors in psychopathological functioning.
