Chapter 3- Diagnosis And Assessment

Question 0

This reverse to the consistency of a measurement

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Reliability

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Act of describing base rates, causes, and treatment for a person with a mental disorder

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Diagnosis

Question 2

This refers to the degree to which two independent observers agree in what they have observed.

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Interrater reliability

Question 3

Measures the extent too which people being observed twice or taking the same test twice after a period of time receive similar scores

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Test-retest reliability

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The extent to which scores in two forms if a test is consistent

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Alternate-form reliability

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Assesses whether the items on a test are related to one another

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Internal consistency reliability

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Whether a measure measures what it is supposed to measure

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Validity

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Whether a measure adequately samples the domain if interest

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Content validity

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Evaluated by determining whether a measure is associated in an expected way with some other measure

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Criterion validity

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Type of validity where in both variables that are linked to each other are measured in the same point in time

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Concurrent validity

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Ability of a test or a measure to predict some other variable at some point in the future

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Predictive validity

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Validity that measures the closeness of a measure to a certain construct

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Construct validity

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Classification system used in the DSM-IV-TR

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Multiaxial classification system

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DSM-IV-TR Axis 1

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Clinical disorders

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DSM-IV-TR Axis 2

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Developmental Disorders and Personality Disorders

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DSM-IV-TR Axis 3

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General medical conditions

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DSM-IV-TR Axis 4

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Psychosocial and environmental problems

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DSM-IV-TR Axis 5

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Global assessment of functioning scale

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Classification which can easily be determined by answering yes or no

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Categorical classification

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Classification that describes the degree of an entity that is present

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Dimensional classification

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Presence of a second diagnosis

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Comorbidity

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Both formal and structure as as well as Informal and unstructured interview used in psychopathological assessment

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Clinical interview

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Interview where questions are set out in a prescribed fashion for the interviewer

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Structured interview

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Subjective experience of distress in response to perceived environmental problems

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Stress

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A self report questionnaire indicating whether statements assessing habitual tendencies apply to him or her

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Personality inventiry