PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Psychological Testing, Electrical Resistance And Conductance, Photon
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Clinical assessment procedures are formal ways of finding out what is wrong with a person, what may be the cause of the problem, and what can be done to improve the condition(s) Reliability: consistency of measurement, test-retest reliability: extent to which people being observed twice or taking the same test. Inter-rater reliability: degree to which two judges agree twice, score in generally the same way: alternate-form reliability: extent to which scores on two forms of a test are consistent. Internal consistency reliability: assesses relatedness of items on a test. Techniques are designed to determine cognitive, emotional, personality, and behavioural factors in psychopathological functioning. Clinical interviews: construe the term from a formal, structured conversation to include any interpersonal encounter where language is used to find out about another person, characteristics of clinical interviews. Different from a casual conversation considering the amount of attention the interviewer pays to the interviewee"s responses.