Psychiatry Clerkship Shelf Lange Psychological Testing

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A test to monitor depressive symptoms

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Beck Depression Inventory

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What is the Beck Depression Inventory

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Allow clinicians to follow the severity of previously dx depression

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What type of testing is the Thematic Apperception Test, Rorschach Test, and Draw-a-Person-Test?

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Projective tests

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Which test is used to assess short-term memory (e.g. to assess post-ECT)

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Brown-Peterson test

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What is the Brown-Peterson Test?

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A test designed to evaluate short-term memory

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Which test is used to assess dementia?

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Folstein MMSE

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Which test is used to assess level of consciousness

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Glasgow coma scale

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What three categories does the Glasgow coma scale test?

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Eye opening, verbal response, best motor response

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What is the Geriatric Rating Scale?

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Rating scale for nonprofessional staff to evaluate patient's abilities to perform their activities of daily living and interact with others.

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What is the Blessed Rating scale?

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A tool to ask a pt's friends or relatives to assess pt's ability to function in his or her current environment

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What is the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test?

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- assesses executive function
- Patient sorts cards with different pictures and symbols according to different criteria
- assesses ability to switch sets, reason abstractly, and solve problems

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Who usually tests poorly on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test? Why?

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Schizophrenics b/c of abnormal dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

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What is the Draw-a-Person Test?

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- tests intelligence in children and tests for brain damage
- Patient draws a person

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What is the Bender Gestalt Test

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- helps determine if organic brain disease or brain damage is present and where the lesion is located
- patient copies figures

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What is the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery test?

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- assesses specific cortical areas and aids in assessment of hemispheric dominance

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Content validity

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a test's ability to cover the conceptual domain that the test intends to measure

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conceptual domain

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usually established by a large group of experts through a wide review of literature

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Discriminative validity

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the ability of a test to differentiate between issues that are theoretically unrelated

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reliability

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a test's ability to reproduce same results

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Internal reliability

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evaluates whether the questions within the test are measuring the same thing

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What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Test (MMPI)

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True false questions that asess personality characteristics

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What is the temporal orientation test? When is it useful?

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- asks patients to identify appropriate day, month, day of week, current time
- score separates patients in those with brain damage and those without
- it's also sensitive to cognitve abnormalities in dementing illnesses

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What is the spatial Orientation Memory Test? When is it useful?

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- evaluates the ability to immediately recall the orientation of figures
- evaluates immediate memory

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What is the Stroop test?

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- assess the ability to concentrate via using words and colors and identifying either

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What is the Fargo Map test

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- assesses recent and remote spatial memory and visuospatial orientation by using map of U.S.

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What are the subtests in the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale?

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6 verbal and 5 performance
- used to get Adult IQ

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How is IQ calculated?

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divind mental age by chronological age and multiply by 100

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What is the Rey Osterrieth Test? When is it useful?

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- assesses visual nonverbal memory
- draw a complex figure while looking at the figure
- then take away the picture and draw the picture from memory
- redraw at 5 and 30 minutes

- useful for parietal lesions b/c neglect the items in the opposite visual field

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What is the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Exam?

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- evaluates aphasic disorders and which interventions are best to improves speech

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What kind of schedule is gambling based on?

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variable ratio schedule- money is given based on a random number of times

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transference vs countertransference

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1. transference: patient's reexperiencing of past experiences in the setting of psychoanalytic psychotherapy
- can also mean experiences of a patient that then relate to how the patient feels about the therapist
2. countertransference: the analyst's response to this
- can also mean the experiences of the therapist and how she then feels about the patient

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Define the following that occur when stopping meds:
1. rebound
2. recurrence
3. withdrawal

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1. rebound: return of sx that are brief and transient; often associated with abrupt stop in benzos
2. recurrence: long -term return of original sx
3. withdrawal: specific sx related to the drug

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How do you score and interpret the Rorschach test?

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- use the Exner Comprehensive System

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What is the Random Letter test

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- tests concentration, cooperation, and ability to hear; can be used to test concentration of pts with low education and thus want to avoid serial sevens
- tell a patient a letter, say a string of letters and tell the patient to raise finger when he hears the letter

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Wada test

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- use to evaluate hemispheric language dominance prior to surgical amelioration of seizure focus
- inject sodium amytal into carotid artery and observe transient effects on speech

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Which test to use for schizoid?

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Rorschach Test to assess personality structure