psyc 421 midterm 2 - 2. neuropsychological assessments

traditional personality dimensions

• aptitudes: skills and abilities

• attitudes: beliefs, feelings, and values

• temperament: emotional style or behavioral tendencies

behavioral assessment dimensions

• cognition:

• emotion:

• motivation:

major neuropsychological functional domains

• spatial/perceptual skills

• attention and working memory

• language and verbal communication

• learning and memory

• executive functions and problem solving

• personality, emotional, and adaptive functions

types of assessment tools: cognitive tasks

assesses cognitive abilities of the subjects

• assessment of general cognitive functioning

• assessment of specific cognitive functions

  • ex. attention, memory

• cognitive tasks with emotional component

types of assessment tools: emotion-related scales

self-reported and implicit measures of subjects’ responses to general and specific emotional situations

• general affect

  • ex. general arousability, valence

• specific emotional responses

  • ex. anxiety, social anxiety, mood

types of assessment tools: personality questionnaires

• assessment of personality traits/general tendencies

  • Big Five, reacting level, goals/proactive level

• assessment of specific traits related to emotion processing

  • ex. emotion regulation, coping with emotional situations