Psychometrics

Functional impairment treatment consideration

Restrictiveness, intensity (duration/frequency), medical vs psychosocial intervention, prognosis, urgency of achieving goal

Social support treatment consideration

Duration of treatment, psychosocial intervention vs medication, group intervention, cognitive behavioral vs relationship enhancement

What is psychometrics

Psych assessment presented as questions of how psychological constructs relate to observables

What is norms

Test performance or typical behavior of one or more reference groups

What is normative or standardization sample

Norm collected from test performance or groups of people

Intellectual function test

Wechsler intelligence scales, Stanford-Binet, Kaufman assessment, Woodcock-Johnson psychoeduational battery III

Memory tests

Wechsler memory scale, Rey Auditory Verbal learning test, California verbal learning, Benton visual retention

Visuoconstructive tests

Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test, Drawing tests

Content of thought process tests

Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), Children’s Apperception Test (CAT)

General pattern and severity of emotional function test

Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory, Rorschach

General personality measures for emotional function test

Sixteen personality factors, sentence completion test, NEO-PI-R, MBTI, adjective checklist

What is verbal scale

Ability to work with abstract symbol, degree of benefit achieved from education, verbal memory, verbal fluency

What is performance scale

Degree and quality of nonverbal contact with environment, ability to integrate stimuli with motor response, capacity to work in concrete situation, ability to work quickly, ability to evaluate visuo-spatial information

What is the mean and SD of intelligence

Mean = 100, SD = 15; 68% of people fall in the range of +-SD of 100

What is the range of 2SD for intelligence

-2D = 70, +2D = 130

What is digit symbol coding

Most brain sensitive; lowered in any brain lesion

What is block design

Parietal sensitive test; brain sensitive

What is picture arrangement associated with

Lowering = right anterior temporal with possible right frontal lesions

Lowered digit span and arithmetic associated with that

Lesion of left hemisphere

Abnormal processing speed (symbol search + digit symbol coding) sensitive to what

Most forms of cognitive impairment

Lowered information and vocabulary associated with what

Left temporal damage

Lowered similarities subtest associated with what lesions

Left frontal lesion → suggest problem with verbal reasoning and verbal concept formation

What is Rorschach

Inkblot test → look at how a person construct experience and meaning

What is rorschach sensitive for

Underlying schizophrenic processes before clinical expression

What is thematic apperception test

Give a ambiguous pictures → ask Pt to interpret → assess here and now of life → tells us how you think and what you value

What is the difference between TAT and CAT

CAT is for children → uses animals instead of humans