Abnormal Psych Chapt 3
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
