Psychology 2310A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Concurrent Validity, Predictive Validity, Mental Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2310A/B
• Professor: Albert N Katz

Document Summary

Classification is the ability to categorize information which allows scientists to better identify and understand various phenomena from molecular structures, to personality, to galaxies. Mental disorders provide a description of different mental disorders. Also needed for surveying population health to understand the prevalence and etiology (causes) of particular mental health disorders. Assessment procedure through which information is gathered systematically in the evaluation of a condition. Yields information that serves as the basis for a diagnosis. Reliability give the same measurement for a given thing every time. Inter-reliability extent to which two clinicians agree on the diagnosis of a particular patient. Less likely that the patients recounts symptoms differently, more likely that different interview techniques are used. Validity whether a diagnostic category is able to predict behavioural and psychiatric disorders accurately. Concurrent validity ability of a diagnostic category to estimate an individual"s present standing on factors related to the disorder but not themselves part of the diagnostic criteria.