Week 2, Chapter 3 Assessment and Classification

Question 1

What is the difference between Mood and Affect

Answer 1

Mood is internal, Affect is observable

Question 2

The assessment of objects or people to categories on the basis of shared characteristics is known as ?

Answer 2

Classification

Question 3

The method founded on the assumption clear-cut differences among disorders, each with a different known cause is called _____ ________ _____ classification

Answer 3

Classical categorical approach

Question 4

A clinical assessment is a systematic evaluation and measurement of _______, _______ and _______ factors in a oersib presenting with a possible psychological disorder

Answer 4

Psychological Biological and Social

Question 5

The presence of two or more disorders in a person at the same time is called ?

Answer 5

Comorbidity

Question 6

____________ approach is the method of categorizing characteristics on a continuum rather than on a binary, either-or, or all-or-none basis

Answer 6

Dimensional

Question 7

What is ECT?

Answer 7

Biological treatment, using application of electrical impulses through the brain to produce seizures.

Question 8

What is EEG?

Answer 8

Measure of electrical activity patterns in the brain, taken through electrodes placed on the head

Question 9

The extent to which a disorder is found among a patient’s relives is referd to as ?

Answer 9

Familial aggregation

Question 10

IQ stands for ?

Answer 10

Intelligence Quotient

Question 11

What areas does a mental status exam observe?

Answer 11

Clients judgement on persopns orientation to time and place (Sensorium- awareness times three), and emotional and mental state, such as Appearance and Behaviour, Thought Processes, Mood and Affect, Intellectual Functioning

Question 12

Clinical assessments need to be ____, _____ and ______.

Answer 12

Reliable, Valid and Standardised

Question 13

Explain reliability

Answer 13

the degree of consistency of a measurement

Question 14

What is inter-rater reliability and test re-test reliability?

Answer 14

inter-rater reliability; two psychologists agree on the same outcome and test re-test reliability; individuals get the same results when testing one week later.

Question 15

What is validity?

Answer 15

Measuring what it is suppose to measure - the accuracy

Question 16

What is concurrent validity?

Answer 16

comparison between results of one assessment with another measure in the same area that is valid,

Question 17

What is predictive validity?

Answer 17

How well the assessment predicts outcomes

Question 18

What is construct validity?

Answer 18

The degree to which the test/item measures the unobservable construct it claims to measure (e.g. depression),

Question 19

What is face validity?

Answer 19

Does the test appear to measure what it says it does - does it seem right at first glance

Question 20

Explain standardisation of measurements

Answer 20

having very clear set rules of administration.

Question 21

The typical starting point of an assessment by a psychologist begins with what?

Answer 21

A clinical interview

Question 22

What are the ABC’s of a behavioural assessment?

Answer 22

Antecedents, Behaviour, Consequences.

Question 23

What is the key need of an observational behavioural assessment

Answer 23

To increase or decrease a target behaviour

Question 24

How do you determine the factors that influence a target behaviour?

Answer 24

Through a behavioural assessment using the ABC’s

Question 25

What is the MMPI?

Answer 25

A personality test, 567 responses to true/false items

Question 26

What is the goal of using neuropsychological testing?

Answer 26

To understand brain-behaviour relations

Question 27

What does a psychophysiological assessment assess?

Answer 27

Assesses brain structure, function and activity of the nervous system

Question 28

What is an idiographic strategy of diagnosis?

Answer 28

Exploring a single case, looking at the individuals uniqueness

Question 29

What is a nomothetic strategy of diagnosis?

Answer 29

identifying a specific disorder that fits with the 'general' - such as with the DSM

Question 30

What is a prototypical approach?

Answer 30

The approach used by the DSM. Categorical but has scope for variability.

Question 31

What are the three categorical approaches called?

Answer 31

Classical approach (pure approach) - Yes/No disorder Dimensional approach - classification along a dimension Prototypical approach - combination of classical and dimensional. Categorical with scope for variability within categories

Question 32

What are some issues with the DSM-5?

Answer 32

Comorbidity, Large emphasis on reliability Caution of stigmatisation from labelling

Question 33

What is cultural formulation?

Answer 33

allows the disorder to be described from the perspective of the patients personal terms of their primary social and cultural group.