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Any method used to discover the factors that underlie behavior, especially maladjusted or abnormal behavior. |
Psychodiagnosis |
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A subspecialty within clinical psychology that emphasizes the use of psychological tests and techniques for assessing psychopathology. |
Psychodiagnosis |
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e, that eminent clinicians performed only slightly better than chance in making valid statements about patients on the basis of their test responses. |
Little and Sheidman |
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illusory correlations between test responses and personality characteristics. |
Chapman and Chapman |
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Example: Rorschach(Homo sexualtity) |
Anal opening Looks like a man bending over |
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the degree to which a procedure adds to the prediction obtainable from other sources |
Incremential Validity |
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is the a priori chance or prior odds that a member of a specified population will have a certain characteristic, assuming that we know nothing else about this person other than that he or she is a member of the population we are examining |
Base Rate |
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require that psychologists use only techniques or procedures that lie within their competence. (3) (Protection) |
1. ethical standards 2.-the growth of state certification 3. -licensing boardscertification of professional competence |
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Most people assume that they have the right to reveal as little or as much as they like about their attitudes, feelings, fears, or aspirations. |
The Question of Privacy |
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issues of trust and confidentiality loom large in our society. |
The Question of Confidentiality |
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Since the rise of the civil rights movement, most people have become increasingly aware of the ways in which society has both knowingly and unknowingly discriminated against minorities. |
The Question of Descrimination |
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remember that significant differences between mean scores on a test for different groups do not in and of themselves indicate test bias or discrimination. Rather, test bias or discrimination is a validity issue. |
Test Bias |
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Computers have been used for years to score tests and to generate psychological profiles. |
Computer Based Assessments |
