PSYCH 333 Module 3 Study Guide: Abnormal Psychology Concepts and Disorders
Review
Define clinical assessment. - correct answer ✔✔collecting information and drawing conclusions
through the use of observation, psychological tests, neurological tests, and interviews to
determine what the person's problem is and what symptoms he/she is presenting with
learn about individuals
** ongoing processes
Clarify why clinical assessment is an ongoing process. - correct answer ✔✔obtaining the
baselines happens in the beginning, implementing the treatment plan that is agreed upon
happens more so in the middle, and then making sure the treatment produces the desirable
outcome occurs at the end
3 things essential to assessment - correct answer ✔✔1) reliability
2) validity
3) standardization
interrater reliability - correct answer ✔✔ensuring that two different raters are consistent in
their assessment of patients
test-restest reliability - correct answer ✔✔persons answers to be consistent if the test was
taken again
test score and retest score should be correlated with each other - the correlation should be very
high (very positive)
, validity - correct answer ✔✔Actually measuring exactly what you intend to measure
concurrent/descriptive validity - correct answer ✔✔extent to which scores on an assessment
instrument correlate with another measure of a psychological feature that has been assessed at
approximately the same point in time
eg. new test for depression symptoms + Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
face validity - correct answer ✔✔Measures whether a test looks like it tests what it is supposed
to test
predictive validity - correct answer ✔✔The success with which a test predicts the behavior it is
designed to predict; it is assessed by computing the correlation between test scores and the
criterion behavior.
eg. SAT's --> GRE
Define standardization. - correct answer ✔✔use of clearly laid out rules, norms, and/or
procedures, and is called standardization
List and describe seven methods of assessment. - correct answer ✔✔1) observation
2) clinical interview
3) psychological tests/inventories
4) neurological tests
5) physical examination- some physiological conditions have similar symptoms as mental
disorders
6) behavioural assessment
Review
Define clinical assessment. - correct answer ✔✔collecting information and drawing conclusions
through the use of observation, psychological tests, neurological tests, and interviews to
determine what the person's problem is and what symptoms he/she is presenting with
learn about individuals
** ongoing processes
Clarify why clinical assessment is an ongoing process. - correct answer ✔✔obtaining the
baselines happens in the beginning, implementing the treatment plan that is agreed upon
happens more so in the middle, and then making sure the treatment produces the desirable
outcome occurs at the end
3 things essential to assessment - correct answer ✔✔1) reliability
2) validity
3) standardization
interrater reliability - correct answer ✔✔ensuring that two different raters are consistent in
their assessment of patients
test-restest reliability - correct answer ✔✔persons answers to be consistent if the test was
taken again
test score and retest score should be correlated with each other - the correlation should be very
high (very positive)
, validity - correct answer ✔✔Actually measuring exactly what you intend to measure
concurrent/descriptive validity - correct answer ✔✔extent to which scores on an assessment
instrument correlate with another measure of a psychological feature that has been assessed at
approximately the same point in time
eg. new test for depression symptoms + Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
face validity - correct answer ✔✔Measures whether a test looks like it tests what it is supposed
to test
predictive validity - correct answer ✔✔The success with which a test predicts the behavior it is
designed to predict; it is assessed by computing the correlation between test scores and the
criterion behavior.
eg. SAT's --> GRE
Define standardization. - correct answer ✔✔use of clearly laid out rules, norms, and/or
procedures, and is called standardization
List and describe seven methods of assessment. - correct answer ✔✔1) observation
2) clinical interview
3) psychological tests/inventories
4) neurological tests
5) physical examination- some physiological conditions have similar symptoms as mental
disorders
6) behavioural assessment
