No ordering is implied and numberical values are just a "name."
What is an Nominal
100
Asking a client for concrete examples of a problem they are having.
What is clarification.
100
This looks at the operationalization and sees whether "on its face" it seems like a good translation of the construct.
What is face validity.
100
A physiological state characterized by cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioral components that combine to create the feelings that we typically recognize as fear, apprehension, or worry.
What is Anxiety.
100
Involves continuing observation of one client system before, during, and after an intervention.
It includes a baseline (phase A) and an intervention (phase B).
What is a single subject design.
200
Rank ordered, variables can only be specific values and distance between attributes do not have any meaning.
What is ordinal
200
How have other practitioners measured the same problems.
What is measurability.
200
SAT Subject TestsTM is evaluated by committees made up of experts who ensure that each test covers content that matches all relevant subject matters in its academic discipline.
What is an example of content validity.
200
the process of specifying what we mean by a term. It is the process of finding general behavior patterns among the bits and pieces of specific situations in everyday life.
What is conceptualization.
200
What is the client problem? What are we attempting to change?
A few specified targets are chosen for monitoring and evaluation.
Problems (targets) are prioritized.
What is targets of interventions.
300
The distance from 30-40 Fahrenheit is the same as distance from 70-80 Fahrenheit.
What is an example of an interval.
300
Anything that occurs, occur with some frequency and can be therefore counted.
What is countability.
300
This looks at the relationship between a test score and an outcome.
What is criterian validity.
300
Categories of perceptions or experiences, or groupings of objects or events.
What is concepts.
300
Clients deserve to be provided with the most effective interventions.
What is evidenced based practice.
400
Meaningful Zero Point
What is a ratio.
400
Decrease undesired situations and increase the desired ones.
What is increasing and decreasing.
400
A group of people takes both the BDI and the Hamilton Psychiatric Rating Scale for Depression, a previously validated measure of depression. You found that the two tests were highly correlated.
What is convergant validity.
400
Assigns meaning to a variable in terms of the operations necessary to measure it in any concrete situation.
What is operationl definition.
400
Develop question.
Find the evidence.
Analyze the evidence.
Combine evidence with your understanding of the client's situation.
Apply to practice with your particular client.
Monitor and evaluate results.
What are the steps in evidenced base practice.
500
Four Levels of measurements.
What is nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio.
500
Eva, a client, hallucinates because she is psychotic.
What is treating an abstraction as a real thing.
500
The same group of people takes the Hamilton Psychiatric Rating Scale for Anxiety, which is a previously validated test that measures anxiety. You found a low correlation with the Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety and the BDI.
What is discriminant validity.
500
Anxiety
What is a concrete definition example.
500
Can be used in any practice without disrupting the intervention;
Can capture the client's unique changes in the situation and not some average representation of a client in a group;
Provide vital feedback for the practitioner to move the case in the desired direction;
Are theory independent or theory neutral-helpful to practitioners using just about any theory of practice;
Their use in agency does not require outside researchers.
Easy to use and understand.
What are the advanatages of single subject designs.