CHAPTER 3 Flashcards
1
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What is Diagnosis?
A
-First step in clinical care.
2
Q
What are the different forms of reliability?
A
- Inter-rater –> Observer agreement
- Test-retest –> Similarity of scores across repeated test administrations or observations.
- Alternate forms –> Similarity of scores in tests that are similar, but not identical.
- Internal Consistency –> Extent to which test items are related to one another.
3
Q
What is validity?
A
How well the test measures what it is supposed to measure.
4
Q
What is content validity?
A
The extent to which a measure adequately samples the domain of interest.
5
Q
What is criterion Validity?
A
The extent to which a measure is associated with another measure (The criterion) concurrent - Test correlates well with a measure that has been validated; both taken at the same time predictive - the ability of the measure to predict another variable measured.
6
Q
What is the International classification of diseases? (ICD)
A
Published by the world health organization. ICD came before DSM.
7
Q
Who published the DSM?
A
American Psychiatric Association
