Week 4 Lecture 1

Question 1

What are Cognitive Codes

Answer 1

They are designed to capture disrupted or illogical thought processes that are indicative of thought disturbance

Question 2

What are the two types of cognitive codes

Answer 2

Language-and-reasoning

Perceptual

Question 3

What are the two levels of severity

Answer 3

1 - mild to modest examples of thinking problems

2 - More severely disturbed or psychotic processes such as irrational problem-solving, confusion, autistic reasoning, hallucinatory tendencies, etc.

Question 4

Language and Reasoning

Answer 4

oddities describing or justifying responses

Question 5

Perceptual

Answer 5

oddities combining visual images or object features

Question 6

To code multiple cognitive codes…

Answer 6

the response features corresponding to the codes must be distinct

Question 7

Can multiple cognitive codes be assigned to a single response

Answer 7

Yes

Question 8

What are the Deviant Verbalization codes?

Answer 8

DV1 and DV2

Question 9

What is DV1

Answer 9

the intended meaning is relatively clear; mistakes in word use involving odd, non-standard, but understandable verbalizations; word misuse is often uninformed, inefficient, benign, or, at times, playful

Question 10

What is DV2

Answer 10

incomprehensible or very difficult to understand a word misuse that interferes with communication; word misuse results in statements that are notably unclear or internally inconsistent or contradictory

Question 11

What are the Deviant Responses

Answer 11

DR1 and DR2

Question 12

What is DR1

Answer 12

typically contained brief examples of inappropriate or task-unrelated language

Question 13

What is DR2

Answer 13

markedly confusing communication or communication failures that are off-task

Question 14

What is the “two step” guideline

Answer 14

Two statements or ideas should be offered
AND
The second one should not be closely related to the response and the Rorschach task

Question 15

What is Peculiar Logic “PEC”

Answer 15

Coded for peculiar, convoluted, strained, confused, or overly concrete thinking, reasoning, and conceptualization

Question 16

What two elements does PEC require

Answer 16

The strained logic must be used to justify or to elaborate a response

The strained logic is offered spontaneously (cannot be prompted by the examiner)

Question 17

Odd or Confused Reasoning PEC

Answer 17

They are preposterous, absurd merging of mutually exclusive concrete and abstract elements

Question 18

Illogically Restrictive or Certitude PEC

Answer 18

Involve problems with formal logic and narrow thinking, rather than absurd or convoluted reasoning

Question 19

What are the Incongruous Combinations

Answer 19

INC1 and INC2

Question 20

Implausible or Illogical Attribute are what cognitive codes

Answer 20

INC1 and INC2

Question 21

INC1 Example

Answer 21

a horse with wings

Question 22

INC2 Example

Answer 22

a dive-bombing butterfly

Question 23

What are the Fabulized Combinations

Answer 23

FAB1 and FAB2

Question 24

What do FAB codes involve?

Answer 24

Implausible or illogical relationships

Question 25

FAB1 Example

Answer 25

two bears giving a high-five Such anthropomorphic interactions are fairly common in Rorschach responses and almost always FAB1

Question 26

FAB2 Example

Answer 26

A conductor with a butterfly on his back. The butterfly is helping him conduct Impossible relationship

Question 27

What are Contaminations "CON"

Answer 27

Very rare code and is restricted to the perception of two mutually exclusive response objects or subcomponents occupying the same blot area