CHAPTER 3&4

• Reliability degree to which a measurement is consistent
• validity measures what is design to measure
• standardization a certain set of standards or norms is determined for a technique to make it our consistent.
• clinical interview core of most clinical work
• the mental status the systematic observation of an individuals behavior
• Appearance and behavior overt physical behavior
• thought process clinicians listen to a patient tlak, getting idea of persons thought process
• mood and affect important part of mental status exam
• mood predominant feeling state of the individual
• affect feeling state that accompanies what we say at a given point
• intellectual functioning make a rough estimat of intelligence that is noticeable only if it deviates drom normal
• sensorium refers to our general awareness of our surrounding
• semistructure clinical interview questions that have been carefully phrased and tested to elicit useful information. you can add follow up questions.
• hypothesis educated guess or statement to be supported by data
• research design plan for teting the hypothesis
• dependent variable phenomenon that is measured and is expected to change
• indepedent variable the aspect manipulated or thought influence the change
• internal validity the result of the study can be attributed to the independent variable
• external validity the result of the study can be generalized or applied outside the immediate study
• confound any factors occuring in the study that makes the result unpredictable
• randomization assigning people to different research
• analog models create in the controlled conditions of the laboratory aspect that are comparable.
• generalizability results to apply to everyone in a certain population