Abnormality

Question 1

What is meant by validity?

Answer 1

Degree to which the measurement is measuring the thing we intend to measure

Question 2

What are the three different types of validity?

Answer 2

Consent validity
Construct validity
Criterion validity

Question 3

What is meant by consent validity?

Answer 3

Degree to which the measurement includes all dimensions of the theoretical concept

Question 4

What is meant by construct validity?

Answer 4

Degree to which measurement corresponds to other measures of the construct

Question 5

What is meant by criterion validity?

Answer 5

Degree to which measurements correlates with external criterion

Question 6

What is is needed for something to be reliable?

Answer 6

Reproductability of results on repeated measurement
Numerical test-retest duplicate meaures
Intra-observer agreement
Categorical inter-observer agreement

Question 7

What is meant by regression dilution bias?

Answer 7

Regression towards the mean

Only measure risk factor once and does not account for all random error

Question 8

Define disease

Answer 8

A disorder that is assigned to a diagnostic category

Question 9

Define disorder

Answer 9

A disturbance or departure from ‘normal’ function

Question 10

Define syndrome

Answer 10

Group of symptoms and signs that tend to appear together, and collectively characterise a disorder

Question 11

What is meant by specified population?

Answer 11

A denominator of groups of people with epidemiological dimensions
Time
Place
Person