Abnormal Psych Lecture 4

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Psychological assessment

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process thru which clinicians use psychological tests, observations, and interviews to develop

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clinical diagnosis

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the process thru which a clinician arrives at a general summary classification of patients symptoms

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Neurological Examinations:
EEG
CAT
MRI
PET
fMRI

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EEG-measures electrical activity (brain waves)
CAT- structural
MRI-structural
PET& fMRI- functional

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The Neuropsychological Examination

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– Involves various testing devices to measure a person’s cognitive, perceptual, and motor performance

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Two types of psychological assessments in interview form are what?

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Structured & Unstructured

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Pros and Cons of Structured Interviews?

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Pro-high reliability/validity
cons-take longer to administer, can frusturate clients

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Pros and Cons of Unstructured Interviews?

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pros-help to build rapport
cons-lack reliability, may be incomplete

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Personality tests

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PROJECTIVE
» Rorschach Inkblot Test
» Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
» Sentence Completion Test
» Draw a person test

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Objective Personality Tests

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
(MMPI)
• 550 T/F items
• Empirically Keyed
• No subjective judgment about the meaning of a
true or false answer to any item
• 10 clinical scales
• 3 validity scales

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objective personality tests pros and cons

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pros-based on decades of research, objective scoring, scales detect lying
cons- takes too long to administer

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3 Models of Classification

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-Dimensional
-Prototypal
-Categorical

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DIMENSIONAL

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Assumes that a person’s typical behavior is
the product of differing strengths or intensities
of behavior along several definable
dimensions (e.g., mood, emotional stability,
aggressiveness, gender identity,
anxiousness)
– Assumes people differ from one another in
their configuration or profile of these
dimensional traits

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PROTOTYPAL

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Depicts an idealized combination of
characteristics that more or less regularly
occur together in a less-than-perfect or
standard way at the level of actual obervation

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CATEGORICAL

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This is the dominant classification scheme
– Assumes that all behavior can be divided into
categories of “healthy” and “disordered”
– Assumes that within “disordered” there exist
discrete, nonoverlapping classes or types