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Chapter 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Unstructured interview | the adoption of clinician's own style of questioning |
| Stanford Binet Intelligence Test | it was developed by Alfred Binet, it consists of memory tasks and other short tests of mental abilities that children were likely to encounter in daily life, such as counting. |
| Mental disorders | abnormal behavior patterns classified by the DSM that involve emotional distress, significant impaired functioning or behavior that places people at risk for personal suffering, pain, disability or death |
| Clinical interview | the most widely used method of assessment. It is usually face-to-face and it involves the presenting problem (reason or issue), history (background such as academic history, level of education, marital history, employment history, etc.), etc. |
| Structured interview | it presents a series of questions in a particular order, it has the highest level of reliability- |
| Semistructured interview | it follows a general outline of questioning but questions may be asked in any order. |
| Weschler intelligence test | test developed for adults and children with two parts, each part has 5 verbal subtests and 5 subtests for performance which includes pictures and blocks, it helps to give insights into a person's relative strengths and weaknesses. |
| The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) | developed in 1939 but published in 1941, there are 2 versions of it known as the original MMPI which has 552 true and false questions or the MMPI 2 have 567 questions. with 10 scales |
| Projective tests | Require subjects to interpret vague stimuli, projective is based on psychodynamic beliefs that people impose/project their own psychological needs, desires, etc. in the unconscious. |
| Rorschach test | published in 1921 and consists of 10 cards: 5 in color and 5 in black and white, interpreted based on form and content |
| Form | reality testing, if one sees what has been seen by others |
| Content | interpretation, the big picture vs. a specific part |
| Thematic Appreciation Test (TAT) | developed by Henry Murray specifically in the 1930's, it's a series of 20 cards and pick a minimum of 10 which asks the subject to tell a story from the cards |
| Human figure drawing test | Asks the subject to draw a person that the therapist then interprets |
| Bender Visual Motor Gesalt Test | gesalt means whole, created by Margarita Bender and published in 1938. It's a series of 12 cards that people should be able to copy by age 12 and errors in it are thought to be part of organic brain impairment. |
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