Testing

Question 1

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

Answer 1

Objective test (not projective), self-report inventory used to assess personality and areas of psychopathologic functioning.

Question 2

Draw a Person; Thematic Apperception; Sentence Completion; Rorschach

Answer 2

Projective tests, patients are asked to do a thing and are graded subjectively

Question 3

testing executive function

Answer 3

Trail-Making. Wisconsin card-sorting

Question 4

Halstead–Reitan battery

Answer 4

multiple test series to test for dementia

Question 5

Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale

Answer 5

assess severity of psychosis in schizophrenia

Question 6

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

Answer 6

highly reliable, retesting rarely changes IQ, predictive of school performance

Question 7

1st for consult/liaison psychiatrist evaluating patient in denial of major illness

Answer 7

make sure patient is informed about Dx/Tx

Question 8

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) infrequency scale (scale F)

Answer 8

There are three validity scales, the lie scale (L scale), the infrequency scale (F scale), and the suppressor scale (K scale). The infrequency scale is useful in identifying malingering, illiteracy, confusion, psychosis, and panic.

Question 9

Boston diagnostic aphasia examination

Answer 9

an exam for aphasia

Question 9

Judgment of line orientation test

Answer 9

useful in detecting right hemisphere disease. This test involves matching lines of the same slope. A patient with right hemisphere disease will have a very hard time with this, whereas a patient with only left hemisphere disease can complete the task without difficulty.

Question 10

Benton visual retention test

Answer 10

patient presented with geometric figures for about 10 seconds and then asked to draw them from memory – tests short-term memory

Question 11

Weschler memory scale

Answer 11

is the most widely used memory test for adults.