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-Can a test be reliable without being valid? Yes
-Fishing Metaphor |
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| -Are you assessing the right thing, measuring or assessing. |
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| -Getting the same thing over and over |
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| Assessment Methods: The Spoken |
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Interviews
-structured
-Unstructured |
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-Formal, run down list of issues to figure out
-Advantages:"Diagnosis is valid"
-Disadvantages: Dont get a feel for what they like, not good with client |
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-Having the client talk to them about whatever
-Advantages:Have a feeling for the client, listening to them speak
-Disadvantages:Can talk to long on one subject |
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-Highly standardized
-Standardization comes at price of inflexibility |
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-Ambiguous stimuli
-deeper understanding
-Difficult to establish reliability and validity |
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-Intelligence, achievement, neuropsychological
-Specialized training to administer/interpret |
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| -imaging techniques; genetic testing |
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-Projective Measures
-Rorschach inkblot test
-Thematic Apperception test
-Draw-A-Person test |
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| -Describing what inkblots look like and then explain why. |
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| Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) |
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| -See a pic and create a story. |
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| -Just drawing a person, their personality based on what they draw. |
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-self-monitoring
-Outside observation (naturalistic or controlled setting)
-Strength: "Real-time" observation
-Limitation:Observer bias, may not report everything. |
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Progression of diagnostic systems
-Pinel
-Kraepelin
-DSM |
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-Rudimentary diagnostic system
-Four different types of mental illness |
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-"Father of modern psychiatric diagnosis"
-Diagnostic system identifying 13 disorders |
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-108 mental disorders
-Vague categories |
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| DSM III and IV improvements |
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-Streamline diagnostic categories
-Precise and specific criteria
-Stripped of theoretical underpinnings |
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DSM III and IV improvements
Advantages |
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-improved reliability and validity
-illuminates importance of diagnosis and empirically supported research |
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DSM III and IV improvements
Disadvantages |
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-Invalid diagnoses
-inventing categories and augmenting pathology and stigma
-superficial, observable criteria
-reductionistic
-overlooks cultural context |
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-Subcategories of schizophrenia eliminated
-disorders renamed (eg. Hypochondriasis)
-Reorganization (eg. post-traumatic stress disorder) |
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-Subcategories of schizophrenia eliminated
-disorders renamed (eg. Hypochondriasis)
-Reorganization (eg. post-traumatic stress disorder) |
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Research designs
Experimental |
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-3 facets
-treatment vs control group
-Random assignment
-double-blind
-advantages
-casual inference
-disadvantages
-impractical |
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Research Designs
Correlational |
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-Correlation coefficient
-direction
+ or - (eg. +.72,-.54)
-Magnitude
-1 to 1
-Advantages
-Feasible
-"Springboard"
-Disadvantages
-No casual inference |
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Research designs
Longitudinal |
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-Advantages
-informative
-Temporal change
-Disadvantages
-Affrition
-Cost |
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| Treatment gets real meds, control group gets fake meds. |
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| No one knows who is getting the real or fake drugs (placebo) This includes both the patient and the researcher. |
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| questions to freshman then asked the same questions as seniors. |
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