Assessment

Question 1

Empircal criterion keying

Answer 1

MMPI adminstered in 8 clinical groups

Question 2

MMPI 3 point codes
- conversion V
- psychotic V
- neurotic traid

Answer 2

• 1 3 2 (hypocondrac, hysteria, depression)
• 6 8 7 (paranoia, schiozphrenia, psychasthenia)
• 1 2 3 (hypocondrac, depression, hysteria)

Question 3

L scale

Answer 3

Lie - underreporting of sx

Question 4

K scale

Answer 4

Defensive - underreporting more subtle than L scale

Question 5

F scale
- Fb
- Fp

Answer 5

Overreporting
- overreproting on last few items (e.g., boredome)
- overreprting symptoms in psych populations

Question 6

S scale

Answer 6

• presenting oneself nicely

Question 7

VRIN

Answer 7

variable response inconsistency - random responding

Question 8

TRIN

Answer 8

True response incosnsitency - fixed yay or nay saying

Question 9

• F and VRIN are high
• F is high but VRIN isn’t
• L and K are high but F is low

Answer 9

• random responding
• no random but trying to fake pathology
• trying to present oneself favourably

Question 10

Personality measures

1) 16 personality factor (16PF)
2) Edwaredse personal preference schedule (EPPS)
3) Myer briggs type (MBTI)
4) Neo personality inventory (NEO)

Answer 10

1) Lexical strategy to find global and primary traits
2) Assessed Muray’s 15 basic needs
3) Based on Jung’s personality typology on 4 bipolar dimensions
4) Based on OCEAN and the big 5 theory

Question 11

Projective Personality Tests

1) Rorschach Inkblot
2) Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

Answer 11

1) Free association and inquiry phase - use exner’s comphrehensive system
2) Based on Murray’s system of human needs and people create a story

Question 12

Separman’s 2 factor theory

Answer 12

• General and Specific factors of IQ

Question 13

Horn and Cattell’s crystalized and fluid IQ

Answer 13

Crystallized - depends on prior learning
Fluid - inherent and doesn’t depend on learning

Question 14

Carroll’s 3 stratum theory

Answer 14

Stratum III = general G
II - 8 broad abilities
I - specific abilities linked to II

Question 15

Catteell Horn Carrol

Answer 15

• Braod and narrow abilities that are linked to crytalized and generalized intelligence

Question 16

Das, Naglieri and Kirby’s PASS theory

Answer 16

• Based on brain structures
• 4 functions: planning attention, simultaneous processing and sequential processing

Question 17

Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligence

Answer 17

• 9 intelligences mediated by different areas of brain e.g, sptail, bodily kinesthetic, musical etc.

Question 18

Sternbergs Triarchic theroy of successfull intelligence

Answer 18

3 interacting components to achive goals
1) analytical IQ
2) creative IQ
3) practical IQ

Question 19

Flynn effect

Answer 19

IQ scores increase by 3 points each decade

Question 20

Stanford Binet (derived from CHC)
- 2 - 85 years old

Answer 20

• fluid reasoning
• knowledge
• quanititave reasoning
• visual spatal processing
• working memory

Question 21

Weschler Adult
- 16 to 90 years old

Answer 21

VCI
PRI
WMI
PSI

Question 22

WAIS scores for:
- Alzhiemers, TBI and depression, ADHD
- AUtism
- Cog impairment and NVLD

Answer 22

• VCI > PSI
• PRI > PSI
• VCI > PRI

Question 23

WAIS
WPPSI
age range

Answer 23

• 6 to 16
• 2.6 to 7.7

Question 24

Other IQ tests
1) cognitive asssessment system (CAS)
2) peabody picture vocabulary (PPVT)
3) kaufman assessment battery for children (KABC)
4) columbia mental maturity scale (CMMS)
5) Leiter intenertional performance scale (Leiter 3)
6) Raven’s standard progressive matrices (SPM)

Answer 24

1) planning, attention, simultanous processing, successive processing (PASS cognitive theory)

2) Receptive vocab

3) Youth Culturally fair (simultaneous, sequential, planning, learning and knowledge)

4) Youth General reasoning ability and doesn’t require verbal response of find motor skills

5) Nonverbal measure for those with IQ delays, speech/hearing impediments and ASD

6) Nonverbal measure of abstract reasoning. Good for speech/hearing impaired, physical disabilities

Question 25

Group Intelligence Tests 1) Wonderlic personnell test (WPT) 2) Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT)

Answer 25

1) Adults; IQ for hiring decisions 2) HighSchool (CAT). Verbal, quaitative, and nonverbal

Question 26

College Admisions Test 1) Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) 2) Graduate Record Exam (GRE)

Answer 26

1) College Admissions 2) General and subject tests

Question 27

Infant and Toddler IQ TEsts 1) Fagan Test of infant intelligence (FTII) 2) Bayley Scale of infant and toddler development (Bayley)

Answer 27

1) Under 1 years old - how much time infant looks at novel stimuli 2) Current developmental status. Cognitive, motor, language, social-emotional, and adaptive

Question 28

Computered Adaptive Test (CAT) ) - for IQ

Answer 28

- Assesses cognitive ability, achievement, and psychiatric sx - Begins with moderate difficulty and goes up or down based on responses

Question 29

Neuropsych assessment (Part 1) 1) Halstead-Reitan Neuopsych battery 2) Luria-Nebraska Neuropsych battery 3) Boston Process approach/Boston hypothesis testing approach 4) Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test 5) Benton Visual Retention Test

Answer 29

1) Severity of TBI (0 - 1) 2) IQ, academic, and exp/recp language 3) Qualitative info about how patient solves items 4) Visual motor perception and integration (copy and recall phase) 5) Visual perception, memory, and construction skills (reproducing visual shapes)

Question 30

Neuropsych assessment (Part 2) 1) Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) 2) Stroop Colour and word test 3) Tower of London 4) Mini mental state Exam (MMSE) 5) Glasgow Coma Scale 6) Rnacho Scale of Cognitive Functioning

Answer 30

1) Sort cards to measure abstract reasoning, perserveration, cognitive flexibility, and executive functions 2) Degree someone can inhibit a prepotent response in favour of another response, cognitive flexiblity, selective attention. Frontal lobe dysfunction 3) Problem solving, planning, and inhibition - evalutes frontal lobe dysfunction 4) Screening test for cogniive impairment. Relies heavily on language, reading, and writing 5) Evaluates levels of consciousness after a TBI and used to estimate severity of injury, 3 - 15. 6) Evalutes congitive recovery during first several weeks after head injury (Level I to X)

Question 31

Other clinical measures 1) Beck depression invetoru 2) vineland adaptive behaviour scales 3) Weschler memory scale

Answer 31

1) Self report of mood 2) 3 domains of adaptive funcioning (communication, daily living, and social) 3) 5 types of memory (auditory, visual, visual working, immediate, delayed)

Question 32

Interest inventory Strong interest inventory (SII)

Answer 32

- 5 scales - General ooccupational themes (based on Holland's themes), basic interest scales, occupational scales (similar to other of their gender that have this job), personal style scales, and administratyive indices

Question 33

Interest inventory (Kuder Occupational Interest Surey (KOIS)

Answer 33

- Examines choose their most and lease prefer activities - Occupational scales, colleg emajor scales, vocational interest estimates, dependeability indices

Question 34

Models of disabilities 1) Biomedical 2) Social 3) Functional 4) Forensic

Answer 34

1) medical condition, intrinsic to person. Mange or cure 2) disability is a difference not abnormality. Due to society that creates barriers. Intervention focus on social changes etc. 3) Disability as cause of personal's inability to perform. Focus on accomodiatonsand modifictions 4) Requires objective proof of impairment. Distinguish between legit and malingerers