The Roots of Clinical Psychology Flashcards
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What are the Diagnosis and Assessment: Beginnings?
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- Assessment of Individual Differences (Galton, Cattell)
a. Mental testing - Classification of Psychopathology (Kraepelin)
2
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What are the Diagnosis and Assessment: Advent of the Modern Era?
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- Assessment of Intelligence (Binet, Terman)
- Personality Testing
- World War I ability testing (Army Alpha Beta)
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What are the Diagnosis and Assessment: Interwar Period?
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- Intelligence debate (Spearman, Thorndike, Thurstone) – How to define? Measure? Study?
Wechsler Intelligence Test – first satisfactory measure of adult intelligence - Projective testing: patients respond to ambiguous test stimuli
- Rorschach Inkblots
- Thematic Apperception Test
- Bender-Gestalt Test
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What are the Diagnosis and Assessment: Post-War and Beyond?
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- MMPI – Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
- Radical Behaviorism: only overt behaviors can be measured
- Diagnostic manuals & structured diagnostic interview
- Neuropsychological Assessment: An assessment approach—based on empirically established brain–behavior relationships—that evaluates a person’s relative strengths and weaknesses across a number of areas
- Managed Care
- Brief, focal assessment