PSYC37H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mild Cognitive Impairment, Memory Span, Verbal Fluency Test
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Week 12 lecture #10: tuesday november 22, 2016. Today: a word about course evaluations, wrap up discussion of neuropsychological tests, test bias and cultural issues in assessment. She was diagnosed with work-related depression and wsib denied her claim. Alberta man found not criminally responsible claims he was faking mental illness. Found that he had mental illness, but a few years later alberta claimed that he faked it. Tricky area: ppl asking for benefits & insurance. Very much verbal, but essentially a memory tool: also measures multiple aspects of how verbal learning occurs or fails to occur, measures both recall and recognition of two lists of words, both immediate- and delayed-memory trials. Examiner reads out a list of 16 words in 4 different categories. Not stated explicitly (the categories), but read multiple times. Through the examinee"s repetition, you can tell how they learn. See if they are learning in that essence.
