Abnormal Week 3

Question 1

observable behaviour or state

Answer 1

symptome

Question 2

a group or pattern of symptoms that tend to occur together in a particular disease

Answer 2

syndrome

Question 3

behavioural, somatic, or psychological syndromes associated with current distress or disability

Answer 3

mental disorder

Question 4

approach to assessment of mental disorders depends on :

Answer 4

• practical factors (cost of assessment)

- theoretical orientation of the assessingpsychologist

Question 5

refers to consistency of measurement

Answer 5

reliability

- better correlation better the reliability

Question 6

what is alternate-form reliability

Answer 6

using two forms of a test

Question 7

what is internal consistency reliability

Answer 7

assess if the items on test are related to one another

Question 8

does this measure fulfill its intended purpose? if so this emasure is ______

Answer 8

valid

Question 9

unreliable measure will not have good ____ why

Answer 9

validity bc it cannot fulfill its intended purpose if its not the saem every time

Question 10

what is content validity

Answer 10

whether a measure adequately samples the domain of interest

Question 11

what is criterion validity

Answer 11

whether a measure is associated in an expected way with some other measure (the criterion)

Question 12

construct validity

Answer 12

a test or measure of some characterstuc or construct that is not simply defined - evaluated by looking at wide variety of data freom multiple sources

Question 13

describe clinical nterviews

Answer 13

the paradigm in which the interviewer influencers the type of info sought, how its obtained and how it is interpreted

Question 14

reliability od unstructured clinical interviews

Answer 14

relies on intuitiona nd general experience of interviewer

• reliability for INTIAL clinical interviews is low
• therapy is longitudinal in nature

Question 15

what are structured in interviews used for

Answer 15

to obtained standardized indo, inter-rater reliability is good

Question 16

structured clinical interview diagnosis (SCID)

Answer 16

provides DSM diagnosis

• uses branchoing - clients answer guids next question asked
• symptoms rated on 3 point scale of severity
• training and lots of practice

Question 17

is evidence-based assessment used often?

Answer 17

no

- practical reasons, clinical relevance, experience, economic pressures…. istead used evidence informed practiuces

Question 18

psychological tests complement _____

Answer 18

interviews

Question 19

standardized procedures desgned to measure a person’s performance on a particular task : ______

Answer 19

psychological tests

Question 20

3 types of psychological tests

Answer 20

1. personality inventories
2. projective tests
3. intelligence tests

Question 21

explain minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (MMPI)

Answer 21

inexpensive means of detecting psychopathology

• deisgned to detect multiple psychological problems
• used to screen ppl for which clinical interviews not possible
• 14-18 and adults
• one elemtn of diagnosis

Question 22

what is the MMPI fake-bad scale

Answer 22

minnesoda multiphasic personality inventory fake-bad used to identiy ppl who are faking but misclissified ppl with problems as faking

Question 23

a set of standard stimuli, ambigous enough to allow variation in responses to determine unconscious processes

—- exmaple

Answer 23

projective personality testsrorchach inkblot tests

- thematic apperception test - black and white photo story telling

Question 24

paradigm projectivetests came from …. emant to why?

Answer 24

psychoanalytic paradigm

bypass defence mechanism

Question 25

controversies about projective measures

Answer 25

more vaild in some context than others - ink blot and schizophrenia

Question 26

verbal ability, problem solving skills, capacity to learn from experience, ability to adapt to the environment

Answer 26

intelligence

Question 27

alfred binet created what to measure ability of people

Answer 27

list of 30 ascending ordered of difficultyitems - ppl should tests at age - mentl vs actual age

Question 28

the mental quotient

Answer 28

ratio of mental age and chronological age

Question 29

IQ means

Answer 29

intelligence quotient (mental/ chronological)*100

Question 30

standardized means of assessing a person;s current mental ability

Answer 30

intelligence test by stanford-binet

Question 31

how talked about emotional intelligence

Answer 31

daniel goleman - capacity to be aware, regulatem express ones emotions while taking tinto accoun others feelings

Question 32

what was high emotional intelligence associated with

Answer 32

reduced depression proneness, greater levels of subjective well being (but not of social interactions)

Question 33

in canadian univeristy styudents, emotional intelligence was used to predict ________

Answer 33

levels of anxiety, depression and life satisfaction

Question 34

the heart of case formulation

Answer 34

the WORKING HYPOTHESIS

Question 35

elements of case formulation

Answer 35

individualized, revisable, collaborative, strengths and assests, treatment plan

Question 36

case formulation is used as base for ________

Answer 36

interventions

Question 37

how to directly observe behaviour in therapy

Answer 37

create artificial situations | see how they react under specific conditions

Question 38

biological assessment - brain imaging types - computerized axial tomography

Answer 38

- small amount of radiation - cross-sectional images - sess enlargeed ventricles, tumours, blood clots

Question 39

biological assessment - brain imaging types magnetic resonance imaging

Answer 39

does not rely on radiation, better than CT, clearer image | - magnetic fields

Question 40

biological assessment - brain imaging types fMRI

Answer 40

brain at work - mapping activation

Question 41

biological assessment - brain imaging types - positron emission tompography

Answer 41

PET scane - brian function - most expsensive and invasice -

Question 42

neuropsychological assessment

Answer 42

- measure how behaviour correlates with brain functio - give treatment reccomendations - assess patients feelings about their syndrome

Question 43

a physician who specializes in medical diseases that affect nervous system

Answer 43

neurologist

Question 44

a psychologist that studies the dysfunctio of the brain and how that aggects how that person feels, thinks and behaves

Answer 44

neuropsychologiist

Question 45

psychophysiological assessment

Answer 45

concerned with bodily changes that accompany psychological events or that are associated with a person's psychological characteristics

Question 46

the study of frequency of disorders in population

Answer 46

epidemiology

Question 47

co-occurenace of different disorders

Answer 47

comorbidity

Question 48

dimensional vs categorical classification

Answer 48

dimensional - scores on a scale | categorical - yes or no

Question 49

first DSM

Answer 49

relied on psychodynamic concepts | short, not many disorders

Question 50

DSM III

Answer 50

more than twice the size, many more disorders - focused on empirical data instead of psychodynamic theory - included explicit diagnostic criteria , focused on treatment

Question 51

DSM II

Answer 51

relied on psychodynamic concepts | not much different

Question 52

DSM IV and IV-R

Answer 52

more disorders, same structure

Question 53

DSM 5

Answer 53

huge - elimination of multiaxial system - now v-code - factors that have stronf influence on treatment that are not disorders - that impact treatment - ex: child abuse - reduces "not otherwise speficied" - - underspecified - put w diagnosis no reason otherspeciifed - w diagnosis and reason given

Question 54

what DSM had multi-axial classifications and what is it

Answer 54

DSM III and each perosn rated on 5 seperate dimentsion scale to know person better 1. principal conditions that need immediate medical attention 2. personality disorers and mental retardation 3. general medical conditions of client as realted to their disorder 4. pwsychosocial envio problems 5. current level of functioning 0-100

Question 55

the consistency of a measurement is called

Answer 55

reliability