01:830:340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Internal Validity, Electrodermal Activity, Scientific Method
27 Jan 2014
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Clinical assessment- systematic evaluation and measurement of psychological, biological, and social factors in a persons presenting with a possibly disorder. Diagnosis- determining whether the problem afflicting the individual meets all the criteria for a psychological disorder in the dsm. Key concepts of assessment reliability- the degree to which a measure is consistent. Interrater reliability- two or more raters give the same diagnosis. Test-retest reliability- getting the same results on a clinical test: validity- whether something measures what it is designed to measure. Includes a lie scale iii: stanford-binet test (iq) intelligence quotient test b. intelligence testing. Iq- score on an intelligence test eliminating a persons deviation from average test performance (deviation from people of the same age) Mental age- based on answering of questions. Electrodermal responding (galvanic skin response or (gsr)- measure of sweat gland activity e. requires great degree of training, useful in identifying nature of a disorder.
