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Question 1

Validity

Answer 1

The extent to which a test or procedure actually measures what it was designed to measure

Question 2

Reliability

Answer 2

The degree to which a test or procedure yields consistent results

Question 3

What are the four main methods clinicians use for assessments?

Answer 3

1. Interviews
   2.observations
   3.psychological tests and inventories
2. Neurological tests

Question 4

What are the pros and cons of using the formal standardized interview? (Includes a standard series of questions or the use of standardized rating scales)

Answer 4

Pro:collecting consistent and comprehensive information and are less subjective to interviewers’ biases

Con:limit conversation and in-depth probing of responses

Question 5

What is the mental status exam?

Answer 5

Uses questions, observations, and tasks to briefly evaluate a client’s cognitive, psychological, and behavioural functioning.

Question 6

What are examples of criteria looked at while doing the mental status exam?

Answer 6

Mood, appearance, affect, speech, thought process, thought content, abstract thought, memory, general knowledge

Question 7

What are the 4 psychological tests and inventories?

Answer 7

1. Standardized tools
2. Projective tests
3. Self-report inventories
4. Intelligence tests

Question 8

What are the 4 projective tests?

Answer 8

1. Rorschach ink blot test
2. Thematic apperception test (TAT)
3. Sentence-completion test
4. Draw-a-person test

Question 9

Why are the cons of projective test?

Answer 9

Low reliability and validity
Analysis is subject to wide variation

Question 10

What are examples of self-report inventories?
Meant to assess people’s typical way of thinking, feeling, and behaving

Answer 10

Minnesota multiphase personality inventory (MMPI-3)
Behavioural assessment system for children (BASC)

Question 11

What are the limitations of self-report inventories?

Answer 11

Fixed number of answer choices
Response bias or response style
Interpretations of the responses of people from different cultural groups may be inaccurate
Cultural factors may shape the way a trait or characteristic is viewed

Question 12

What are example of intelligence tests?

Answer 12

1. Wechsler adult intelligence scale (WAIS-IV)
2. Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-IV)
   3.Stanford-Binet Intelligence test (SB5)

Question 13

Where are intelligence tests used?

Answer 13

In learning disorders,
intellectual disability,
intellectual giftedness,
ADHD assessments

Question 14

What are the limitations of intelligence tests?

Answer 14

1. Cultural bias in test (heavily relies on verbal and comprehension of the language)
2. Does not capture all intelligence

Question 15

What are examples of neuropsychological tests?
Tests developed to assess behavioral disturbances caused by brain dysfunction

Answer 15

Bender-Gestalt visual-Motor test
(Copying geometric designs, certain errors are characteristic of neurological impairements)
Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery
(Differentiates patients with brain damage)

Question 16

What does the high rates of comorbidity suggest for the DSM?

Answer 16

The core assumption of categorical classification is that disorders are separate but the high comorbidity rates suggest that the disorders in this classification are not distinct