PSYCH 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Thematic Apperception Test, Sensorium, Psych
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Standardized instruments: personality, maladaptive behavior, development of social skills, intellectual abilities, vocational interests, cognitive impairments, personality dynamics/conflicts. Look for: appearance and behavior, thought processes, mood and affect, intellectual functioning (e. g. vocabulary, thinking and abstract, etc. , sensorium. Test taker is presented with ambiguous stimulus and is asked to responds to them in some way; developed by psychoanalytic workers. Tends to be controversial open to challenge but can have good results. Shows series of pictures and ask for story. There is a version available for children. Test taker answers specific written questions or selects specific responses from list of alternatives. Mmpi and mmpi-2: minnesota multiphasic personality inventory people tend not to like. Primary functions: estimate current level of cognitive functioning, determine strengths/weaknesses, assess intellectual deterioration in psychotic disorders (e. g. in schizophrenia this often happens) Secondary function: provide clinical data, wechsler iq test.
