Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psychological Evaluation, Brain Tumor, Intellectual Disability

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Gathering information to make decisions about the nature, status, and treatment of psychological problems. Screening identify problems or predict the risk for future problems. Tailoring assessment to symptoms, age, and medical status. Conversation to gather information and make judgements related to assessment goals. Functional analysis identifies causal links between behaviour, its antecedent, and its consequence. Self-monitoring a patient records and observes own behaviour. Behavioural observation measurement of behaviour by a trained observer. The goal of behavioural assessments is to understand behaviour within the context of learning, "learned behaviour" The brief psychiatric rating scale measure a broad range of psychological symptoms. Assessment strategies that measure brain and nervous system activity. Electrodermal activity changes in electrical conductance due to changes in sweat glad activity biofeedback trains patients to recognize and modify physiological signals- headache: Unstructured conclusions unreliable structures open/closed ended, conclusions more reliable. Lacks fit with the dsm system and categories. From psychoanalytic theory asked to respond to ambiguous stimuli.