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25 Cards in this Set
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Presenting problem
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Major symptoms or behaviors
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Electroencephalogram (EEG)
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Is a graphical record of the brain's electrical activity
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Dysrhymia
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Irregular pattern
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Computerized Axial Tomography (CAT Scan)
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Radiological technique used to locate and assess the extend or organic damage to the brain without surgery.
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
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Internal scanning technique involving mesurement of variation in the magnetic field that allow visualization of the anatomical features of internal organs including the CNS.
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Positron Emission Tomography (PET Scan)
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Scanning technique that messures metabolic processes to appraise how well an organ is functioning.
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Functional MRI (fMRI)
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Internal scanning techinque that meassures changes in local oxigenation to specific areas of brain tissue that in turn depend of neuronal activity in those specific regions, alloing the maping of psychologycal activity such as sensations.
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Neuropsychological Assesment
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Involves the use of various testing devices to messure a person's cognitive, perceptual and motor performances as clues to the extend and location of brain damage.
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Unstructured interviews
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Unstructured assesment interview assesments are usually subjective and do not follow a predetermined set of questions.
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Structured interviews
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Follow a preetermined set of wuestions thrughout the interview
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Role playing
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Form of assesment in which a person is instructed to play a part, enabling a clinician to observe a client's behavior directly.
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Self-monitoring
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Oberving and recording one's own behavior, thoughts and feelings as they occur in various natural settings.
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Ratin scales
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Formal structure for organizing information obtained from clinical observation and sle-reports to encourage reliability and objectivity.
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Projection Test
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Techniques that use various ambigous stimuli that a subject is encouraged to interpret and from which the subject's personality characteristics can be analyzed.
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Rorschach Test
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Use of tn inkblots pictures to which a subject responds with associations that some to mind. Analysis of these responses enables a clinician to infer personality characteristics.
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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
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Use a series of simple pictures about which a subject is instructed to make up stories. Analysis of the stories give a clinicians clues abut the person's conflicts, traits, personality dynamics and the like.
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Sentence Completion Test
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Projective technique utilizing imcomplete sentences that a person os to complete, analysis of which enables a clinician to infer personality dynamics.
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Objective Test
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Structured test, such as questionares, self-inventories or rating scales used in psychoogical assesment.
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Actural Procedures
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Methods whereby data about subjects are analyzed by objective procedures or formulas rather than by human judgement.
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Reliability
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Degree to which a messuaring device produces the same results at all times when it is used to messure the same thing or when two or more diffrent raters use it.
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Validity
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Extend to which a measuring instrument actually measures what it soupposed to measure.
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Categorial Approach
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Approach to classifying abnormal behavior that assumes (1) all human behavior can be shaply divided into normal and abnormal. (2) there exist discrete, nonoverlapping classes or types of abnormal behavior, often refferd to as mental illness.
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Dimmensional Approach
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Aproach to classifying abnormal behavior that assumes that a person's typical behavior is the product of differing intensities of behavior along several definalble dimenssions such as mood, emotional stability, aggresiveness ect.
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Prototypal Approach
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Approach to classifying abnormal behavior that assumes the existance of prototypes to behavioral disorders that, rather than being mutually exclusive may blend into others with which they share many characteristics.
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Comorbidity
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The occurrence of wo or more identified disorders in the same psychologically disordered individual.
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