Psychology 2030A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Unstructured Interview, Concurrent Validity, Criterion Validity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

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Screening can help identify people who have problems but who may not be aware of them or may be reluctant to mention them. Identify potential psychological problems or predict the risk of future problems if someone is not referred for further assessment or treatment. Outcome evaluation help us to know whether patients are getting better, when treatment is finished or when a modification to an approach is necessary. Properties of assessment instruments: the potential value of an assessment instrument rests in part on its various psychometric properties which affect how confident we can be in the testing results. To understand the results of clinical assessments, the score must be put in context. Standard ways of evaluating scores can involve normative or self-referent comparisons: no(cid:396)(cid:373)ati(cid:448)e co(cid:373)pa(cid:396)iso(cid:374)s (cid:396)e(cid:395)ui(cid:396)e co(cid:373)pa(cid:396)i(cid:374)g a pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)"s sco(cid:396)e (cid:449)ith the sco(cid:396)es of a sample of people who are representative with the entire population.