Exam 3: Assessing and Diagnosing Abnormality

Disruption of social and occupational functioning and duration of a person's symptoms are criteria that were missing for which editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)?

Which of the following was a problem with the earlier editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)?

What is meant by reliability? Briefly describe the different types of reliability.

When electroencephalogram (EEG) patterns over brief periods are recorded in response to specific stimuli, these EEG patterns are referred to as:

Simon developed two forms of an anxiety questionnaire. In the second form, he changed the wording and order of the questions. He administered both forms to the same group of participants two weeks apart. While scoring the tests, Simon realizes that the participants' answers to the different forms of the test are dissimilar. In this case, the tests are said to have:

Clinicians will often use _____ to assess deficits in an individual's skills or ways of handling situations.

Which term refers to the accuracy of a test in assessing what it is supposed to measure?

In a mental status exam, when a clinician takes note of how coherently and quickly a client speaks, the clinician is assessing the client's _____.

A test is considered to have predictive validity when it: