Abnormal Psych Chapt 3

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What is unstructured interview?

Clinician get to know the patient and help determine what other assessment techniques are required.

What is informed consent

Indicating that the person to be tested understands the tests' purposes. Person agrees to do the testing

What is the Rorschach Test?

Inkblot stating what they look like to the patient

Define a clinical assessment

Involves gathering information or data about a person and his/her environment in order to make decisions about nature, status, and treatment of psychological problems

Which of the following is an objective personality test?

MMPI: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

What do personality tests do?

Measure personality traits or characteristics

Define reliability

Reliability of a test indicates the consistency of a test to give the same or nearly the same results if it is used more than once.

The assessment measures must be?

Reliable and valid

Explain clinical significance

The degree of change (how much a patience's symptoms have been reduced)

Who can sends the referral?

The request can be sent from a person, family, teacher or other health care professionals.

Define trait

Trait is a Characteristic

What is prognosis?

Treatment planning or outcome evaluation (prognosis)

Explain what a self-monitoring is

A process whereby a patient observes and records is/her own behavior as it happens. Ex. Keeping a diary

Which is a neuropsychological test?

Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test: comprised of geometrical figures that the test taker is to draw

Define screening

Identify potential psychological problems or the risk of future problems

What is diagnosis?

Identification of illness - Made on the basis of lab tests

Define interval recording?

Observer measures the number of times a particular behavior occurs during a specific time interval. Example . Counting the number of times a child hits other children in a playground in 20 minutes

What is open ended answers?

Open ended: allowing the patience to answers as he/she wants

What is APA

Psychologies who administer psychological assessment must follow the American psychological association code of ethics.

What does referral come from?

Referral questions in response to request for help

Define validity

Refers to the degree to which a test measures what is intended to measure

Define normative comparisons

Require comparing a person's score with the scores of a sample of people, representing a population

1. What are two widely projective tests are also used for personality evaluation?

Rorschach Test and Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

Define the word symptoms

Signs of illness

What is antecendents?

Something that comes before

What is a structured interview?

When the clinician asks each patient the same standard set of questions

What is the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)?

cards with pictures on them and the test taker is to make up a story state what is happening and how the person feels


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