Tests/scales

Question 1

Trail making test

Answer 1

connecting letters and numbers in order- tests executive function

Question 2

Wisconsin card sorting test

Answer 2

-evaluates abstract reasoning and flexibility in problem solving

Question 3

Thematic apperception test

Answer 3

tests normal personality and involves showing pictures and having pt come up with stories
-most accepted traits and motives attributed to character closest to pt age, sex appearance
- most unacceptable and unconscious to character most unlike pt

Question 4

Halstead reitan battery

Answer 4

helps find the location of different brain lesions

Question 5

MMPI

Answer 5

personality assessment used to find areas of psychopathological functioning

Question 6

BPRS

Answer 6

Severity of psychosis in schizophrenia

Question 7

halstead-reitan battery

Answer 7

used to find the location and effects of certain brain lesions

Question 8

stanford-binet

Answer 8

intelligence test

Question 9

wechsler-bellevue test

Answer 9

memory test

Question 10

MMPI

Answer 10

self reported inventory to assess personality traits

Question 11

bprs

Answer 11

schizophrenia and psychosis

Question 12

depression rating scales

Answer 12

• carroll rating scale- self rating
• zung self rating scale- self rating
• beck depression inventory- can be self scored
• Montgomery–Åsberg scale

Question 13

MMPI scales L F K

Answer 13

L- lie scale- socially desirable behaviors that are rarely practiced to see if they are being honest
F- infrequency scale-malingering, illiteracy, confusion, psychosis or panic
K- suppressor scale- decrease false positives and false negatives

Question 14

SCID does not include what

Answer 14

functional impairment but this is covered in the Schedule for clinical assessment in neuropsychiatry

Question 15

what does the scid cover?

Answer 15

• general overview, mood episodes, psychotic symptoms, psychotic disorder differential, mood disorder differential, substance use, anxiety disorder, somatic disorder, eating disorder and adjustment disorder

Question 15

what does the scid cover?

Answer 15

• general overview, mood episodes, psychotic symptoms, psychotic disorder differential, mood disorder differential, substance use, anxiety disorder, somatic disorder, eating disorder and adjustment disorder

Question 16

CAPS

Answer 16

clinician administered ptsd scale

Question 17

PANSS

Answer 17

positive and negative symptom scale
- rates severity of psychosis

Question 18

BPRS

Answer 18

brief psychiatric rating scale of psychosis

Question 19

CAGE

Answer 19

alcohol abuse

Question 20

line orientation test

Answer 20

useful in detecting right hemisphere disease-matching lines of same slope

Question 21

boston diagnostic aphasia examination

Answer 21

aphasia

Question 22

thematic apperception test

Answer 22

pt creates story based on picture they are presented with
- tells examiner about their thoughts, feelings, organziation

Question 23

benton visual retention test

Answer 23

geometric figures for 10 seconds and then asked to draw them from memory, tests short term memory

Question 24

weschler memory scale

Answer 24

most widely used memory test for adults

Question 25

bender visual motor gestalt test

Answer 25

test visuomotor coordination and is useful in testing maturational levels in children

Question 26

wisconsin card sorting test

Answer 26

assesses abstract reasoning and difficulty in problem solving