Life Span Flashcards
NML bereavement
- sx last less than 6m
- crying, laughing, loss of interest in friends/activities, sleep disturbance, eating changes, fatigue, sadness
Targets of assessment
Aptitude - cognitive ability (IQ), academic achievement, memory, vocab, fine motor speed
Traits - personality and preferences, depression, and anxiety
Methods of assessment
Sample: e.g., IQ
-Measure a sample of the behavior in question such as with a memory test
Projective: e.g., Rorschach Ink Blot Test
-You “project” your emotions onto an ambiguous stimulus
Actuarial: e.g., MMPI
-Strange questions that are related, through huge subject samples, to various pathology. E.g., “I like roses better than daises.”
Self-Report: e.g., Structured questionnaires
-A questionnaire about, for example, feelings of depression. E.g., I feel depressed: never, rarely, sometimes, often, or all the time.
Reliability
extent to which a measure is repeatable
Validity
extent to which a measure measures what you think it measures
Standardization
everyone uses the measure in the same way
Normative sample
the large group of people upon whom the measure is tried out to determine the average and normal ranges
NML distribution curve
Bell curve
Bimodal distribution
Two humps
Skewed distribution
Bell curve with tail to one side
Measures of centrality
Mean (average)
Median (middle)
Mode (most common)
SD in a NML distribution
- 68% of the population lies between +1 and-1 SD
- 95% of the population lies between +2 and -2 SD
- 99% of the population lies between +3 and -3 SD
- -2 SDs = 2nd percentile
- -1 SD = 16th percentile
- 0 SD = 50th percentile
- +1 SD = 84th percentile
- +2 SD = 98th percentile
early adulthood Erikson stage
intimacy v isolation
late adulthood Erikson stage
generativity v. stagnation
elderly Erikson stage
ego integrity v. despair
