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| collecting information about a patient |
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| identification of the nature and cause of a disease or injury. |
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| measurement of functioning at the begining of treatment. |
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| relates to the degree to which measurements are consistent |
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| what is test-retest reliability? |
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| requires the psychologist to obtain similar results with the same patient at two different times. |
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| what is internal reliability? |
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| different parts of a test produce similar results |
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| what is inter-rater reliability? |
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| two or more psychologists come to similar conclusions about the patient's diagnosis. |
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| refers to the degree to which a technique or test measures what it is designed to measure |
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| a test of technique appearing to measure what it is designed to measure |
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| what is content validity? |
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| test or technique measures the content or area that are most important |
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| define concurrent validity |
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| similar tet yeild the same results |
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| what is predictive validity? |
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| refers to how accurately a behaviour can be predicted |
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| what is construct validity? |
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| requires that a test measure what it is designed to measure |
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| possible causes and nature of disease |
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| behaviour linked to emotion and not biology |
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| being in agreement; behaviour is appropriate with respect to emotional content |
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| what are psuchological tests and neuropsychological tests? |
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| tests to determine cognitive, emotional, or behavioural responses that might be associated with specific disorders. |
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| pretending to have psychological illness |
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| what are false-positives? |
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| test results that indicate brain damage where there is none |
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| what are false-negatives? |
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| the results that indicate no brain damage where there is brain damage. |
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| an imaging test in whicha narrow x-ray beam is passed through an individual's head and the amount of radiation absorbed is measured. |
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| an imaging test that uses electrodes on the scalp that record the assess general brain-wave patterns |
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an imaging test in which a harmless radioactive isotope is passed into the brain to measure metabolic activity
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| an imaging test that uses very large magnets to provide detailed pictures of the brain at any angle |
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- psychological
- intelligence
- brain scan
- personality
- projective
- objective
- neuropsychological
- test batteries
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| description of behaviours based on generalizations formed from abservations |
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| classification manual for mental illness |
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