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Counseling (Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔-designed to help the client gain a perspective on how they behave

Self-knowledge (Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔-Used to help client learn how to make better decisions and to take responsibility for their own actions

Value judgment (Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔-carefully considering accumulated data to ensure that it is complete and accurate in order to make an interpretation or inference

Decision making (Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔-process in which the collected data has been weighed against possible consequences and test results

Nonstandard Procedures (Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔-Observations of client behaviors and performance

• levels of behavior observations

(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔-1st Level = casual informational observations; watching the client in unstructured activities throughout the day

2nd Level = guided observation; intentional direct observation with a checklist/rating scale to evaluate performance or bx seen 1 / 4

3rd Level = clinical level; observation is done in a controlled setting for a lengthy period of time

Actuarial/Statistical Prediction (Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔-based on empirically validated data incorporating regressive or multiple regressive equations

Clinical Predictions (Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔-Based on intuition and experience of observing clincian

Guidelines for assessing culturally diverse populations (Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔-1. clarify purpose of evaluation

• be sensitive to test material that unfairly discriminates
• use alternative method of assessment that is more appropriate
• familiarize yourself to the norms/values of the examinee's culture
• establish rapport or call on another clinician if rapport is not established

Spearman intelligence (Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔-Proposed general intelligence factor (g) and any number of specific intelligence factors (s) unique to a task

Horn and Cattell (Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔-adjusted Spearman model by dividing (g) into Crystallized Intelligence (Gc) and Fluid Intelligence (Gf)

Crystallized Intelligence = knowledge and skills acquired thru education & experience; continues to increase throughout life

Fluid Intelligence = ability to solve new problems; peaks in adolescence and declines thereafter

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Sternberg intelligence theory (Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔-Successful intelligence is composed of analytical, practical, and creative elements; argued that standardized test focus almost exclusively on analytical elements

Gardner multiple intelligence theory

(Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔-Proposed 8 kinds of intelligence:

• linguistic
• musical
• logical-mathmatical
• spatial
• bodily-kinesthetic
• interpersonal
• intrapersonal
• naturalistic

Seattle Longitudinal Study (Schaie et al.) (Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔-- 7 yr intervals from 1956-2005

• no uniform pattern of age-related changes across all intellectual abilities, except for maybe perceptual

speed

Effects of Heredity on Intelligence (Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔-- individuals w/genetic similarity have similar levels of intelligence

• 32-64% of variability in intelligence comes from genetic factors

Effects of Environment on Intelligence (Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔-- SES is consistently linked to performance on intelligence tests

• Flynn Effect = gradual increase in IQ scores that occur in industrialized nations

> change of 3-6 points over 1-2 generations > not due to genetics 3 / 4

Effects of Gender on Intelligence (Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔-- females perform better on verbal ability

• males perform better on spatial and quantitative ability
• males more likely to be at extreme ends of score distribution for every type of intelligence

Effects of Race on Intelligence (Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔-- Whites outperform African Americans on Stanford-Binet, Wechsler, and other IQ tests by about 1 SD > this is diminishing

• Slope bias = predictor is more accurate for one group than for another
• Intercept bias = predictor consistently over-predicts or under-predicts performance for a particular

group

Standardized test (Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔-questions and responses from all tests can be compared w/one another.Every aspect of the test must remain consistent

Behavioral Assessment (Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔-individual can be evaluated in relation to their environment.

SORC = stimulus, organism, response, and consequences

Dynamic Assessment (Assessment & Diagnosis) - ✔✔-systematic deviation from the standardized test for the purpose of determining whether the individual benefits from aid. Involves "testing the limits" in which an examinee is provided w/a sequence of extra clues

Domain-Referenced Testing

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