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| degree to which a measurement is consistent, over time or among different raters |
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| degree to which a technique measures what it purports to measure |
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| process of establishing specific norms and requirements for a measurement tech to ensure it is used consistently across measurement occasions. Instructions for admin, eval |
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| 1) appearance/behavior, 2)thought process 3) mood affect 4) intellectual functioning 5) sensorium |
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| general awareness of surroundings, 1)person 2)time 3)space oriented times 3 |
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| indi. responses not measures, but by patterns of scores |
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| IQ, deviation IQ, estimate of how much a child's performance in school is likely to deviate from the average of others the same age. |
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| neuropsychological testing |
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| detect organic damage, just a screen, need to be paired with others and very long to administer |
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| CAT, CT, PET, MRI, SPECT, fMRI, |
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| psychophysiological assessment |
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| measurable changed in nervous system that reflect emotional or psychological events. anxiety, stress, sexual arousal |
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| EEG, electrical activity patterns |
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| broad, any effort to construct ghouls or categories, assign objects or poodle to categories based on shared characteristics |
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| classification in scientific context, |
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| applying a taxonomic system to psychological or medical phenomena |
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| names of labels that make up the nosology, a naming system |
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| pure categorical, clear underlying pathophysiological cause |
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| variety of components, quantified on a scale, |
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| system of categorizing disorders using both essential defining characteristics and a range of variation on other characteristics. |
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| extent to which a disorder would be found among relatives. |
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| presence of 2 or more disorders in person at same time |
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| applying a name to a phenomenon or a pattern of behavior, negative connotations apply to person rather than behavior |
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| educated guess or statement to be tested |
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| plan of experimentation used to test hypothesis |
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| extent to which the results of a study can be attributed to the independent variable after confounding alternative explanations have been ruled out |
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| extent to which research findings generalize or apply to people and settings not involved in study |
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| ability of a hypothesis to be subjected to scientific scrutiny and tot be accepted or rejected, a necessary condition for the hypothesis to be useful |
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| in an experimental study, the phenomenon that is measured and expected to be influenced |
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| phenomenon manipulated by the experimenter in a study and expected to influence the dependent viable. |
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| any factor occurring in a study that makes the results uninterpretable because its effects cannot be separated from those of the variables being studied |
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| approach to research that employs subjects who are similar to clinical clients allowing replication of a clinical problem under controlled conditions |
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| extent to which research results apply to a range of individual not included in the study |
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| psychopathology research method examining the prevalence distribution and consequences of disorders in populations |
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| single case experimental design in which measures are taken on 2 or more behaviors or on a single behavior in 2 or more situations. |
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| observable characteristics or behaviors of an individual. |
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