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Week 2, Chapter 3 Assessment and Classification Flashcards

1
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What is the difference between Mood and Affect

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Mood is internal, Affect is observable

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

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Classification

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

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Classical categorical approach

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4
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A clinical assessment is a systematic evaluation and measurement of _______, _______ and _______ factors in a oersib presenting with a possible psychological disorder

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Psychological Biological and Social

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

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Comorbidity

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

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Dimensional

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What is ECT?

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

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What is EEG?

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

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

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Familial aggregation

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IQ stands for ?

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Intelligence Quotient

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What areas does a mental status exam observe?

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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

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12
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Clinical assessments need to be ____, _____ and ______.

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Reliable, Valid and Standardised

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Explain reliability

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the degree of consistency of a measurement

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

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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.

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What is validity?

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Measuring what it is suppose to measure - the accuracy

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What is concurrent validity?

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

17
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What is predictive validity?

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How well the assessment predicts outcomes

18
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What is construct validity?

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

19
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What is face validity?

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

20
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Explain standardisation of measurements

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having very clear set rules of administration.

21
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The typical starting point of an assessment by a psychologist begins with what?

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A clinical interview

22
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What are the ABC’s of a behavioural assessment?

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Antecedents, Behaviour, Consequences.

23
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What is the key need of an observational behavioural assessment

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To increase or decrease a target behaviour

24
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How do you determine the factors that influence a target behaviour?

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Through a behavioural assessment using the ABC’s

25
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What is the MMPI?

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A personality test, 567 responses to true/false items

26
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What is the goal of using neuropsychological testing?

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To understand brain-behaviour relations

27
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What does a psychophysiological assessment assess?

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Assesses brain structure, function and activity of the nervous system

28
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What is an idiographic strategy of diagnosis?

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Exploring a single case, looking at the individuals uniqueness

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What is a nomothetic strategy of diagnosis?

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

30
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What is a prototypical approach?

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

31
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What are the three categorical approaches called?

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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

32
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What are some issues with the DSM-5?

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Comorbidity,
Large emphasis on reliability
Caution of stigmatisation from labelling

33
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What is cultural formulation?

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

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