PSYC37H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lexical Hypothesis, Reward Dependence, Harm Avoidance
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Free recall: list all words from the list that you remember. Cued recall: tell me the words that were furniture . Moca is good for identifying people with mild cognitive impairment (mci). This group of patients is often missed by larger tests like the mmse, since this test has better sensitivity (correct identification of true positives) and specificity (correct identification of true negatives; only looks at those affected). Moca has 87% specificity whereas the mmse is 100% specificity. This means that mmse will never make it seem as though someone has a cognitive impairment when they really don"t have one. Yet, mmse has a poorer sensitivity than moca (moca has 90-100% sensitivity), meaning that moca is better at letting you know that the person tested has mci or not. Eysenck argued that there are no set of personality traits that are real, unless they have a biological basis.
