PSY 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Standard Deviation, Personality Test
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Chapter 4 01/31 exam in 2 weeks 2/14 paper due the 23rd. Relationship between assessments and diagnosis: make sure there is validity, important to make an accurate diagnosis because many things are like each-other. Social and behavioral history: very important with treating people, ask family, spouse, people they work with, is it in social context, cultural differences. Professional orientation: behaviorist vs psychoanalysis vs biological. Trust and rapport: rapport- relationship/ connection, if you don"t have a connection it will not work. General physical exam: make sure there isn"t anything else that is causing these issues (thyroids) Neurological exam: mri, cat scan, pet scan, fmri, clinicians can be interpreted differently, improvements being made for all these neurological scans and tests. Neuropsychological exam: physical behavioral tests, tells functioning or lack there of, behavioral relevant. Interviews: skid- an interview that is very reliable in telling if you have a mental illness. If for a child its given to the teacher or parents.
