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Chapter 3 Assessment - PSYCH-55
Abnormal Psychology (PSYCH-55 )
Chaffey College
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Assessment ● Psychological Assessment ○ Procedure in which a clinician provide a formal evaluation of an individuals cognitive, personality, and social functioning ● Standardization ○ Clearly specifies a tests instructions for test administrations and scoring ● Clinical Interview ○ Series of questions ■ Background and symptoms ● Unstructured Interview ○ Open-ended questions ■ Symptoms, family background, life history, reasons for seeking help, health Intelligence Testing ● Mental status examination ● Intelligence testing ○ Stanford-Binet Intelligence test ■ Deviation intelligence (Intelligence Quotient - IQ) ■ Avg. IQ 85-100 - 115 ■ Initially only had math and verbal ○ Wechsler Intelligence Test ■ Verbal comprehension ■ Perceptional Reasoning ■ Working memory ■ Processing speed Personality Testing ● Personality Testing is used to understand a person’s thoughts, behaviors and emotions ● 2 forms of personality tests ○ Self Report - Surveys ■ Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) ● Projective ■ Thematic Apperception Test ■ Rorschach Inkblot Test Behavioral Assessment ● Target Behavior ○ What the client/therapist wish to change ● In vivo observations ○ Naturalistic observation ● Analog Observations ○ Observing behavior or in clinicians office/lab
● Behavioral Self Report ○ Client records target behavior including antecedents and consequences ● Self Monitoring ○ Client keeps a record of the frequency of target behavior ● Behavioral Interviewing ○ Clinical interview about the target behavior Multicultural Assessment ● Multicultural Assessment is taking a person’s cultural, ethnic, and racial background into consideration when conducting psychological assessment ○ Does the client speak English? ○ Does the client understand the assessment process enough to give consent? ○ Are there normative data for the clients ethnic group Neuropsychological Assessment ● A process of gathering information about brian functioning ○ Clock Drawing Test ○ Wisconsin Card Sorting Test Neuroimaging ● Provides a picture of the brain’s structures or level of activity and is a useful tool for <looking at= the brian ○ Electroencephalogram (EEG) ■ Measures electrical activity in brain (e., alert, resting, sleeping, dreaming) ■ Used to measure epilepsy, sleep disorders, and brain tumors ● Computed Axial Tomography (CAT/CT) ○ Provides a cross-sectional slice of the brain from any angle or level ○ Measures fluid filled areas of the brain and the ventricles ○ Used to measure brain damage ● Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) ○ Uses radio waves rather than X-Ray to provide a high resolution picture of white (alive) and gray (dead) matter within the brain ○ Used to measure diseases that affect nerve fibers in white matter of the brain ● Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) ○ A variant of the traditional MRI that allows researchers to construct a picture of activity in real time using magnetism to detect brain activity ● Positron Emission Tomography (PET) ○ Specialists inject radioactively labels compounds into a person’s veins and small amounts. Components travel through the blood stream, in the brain and emit positrons (+Charged electrons), which can be detected much like an x-ray ○ Shows blood flow, oxygen, glucose, and concentration of brain chemicals ○ Used to measure metabolic activity and brain damage
Chapter 3 Assessment - PSYCH-55
Course: Abnormal Psychology (PSYCH-55 )
University: Chaffey College
