PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Parietal Lobe, Psychophysiology, Rorschach Test
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Clinical (conversaional technique in which the clinician atempts to learn about the client"s problems. Content of the interview varies depending on the paradigm of the interviewer) Structured ( quesions to be asked are spelled out in detail in a booklet ; most oten used for gathering informaion about a diagnosis) Personality tests ( self-report quesionnaire used to assess broad range of characterisics as in the mmpi or a single characterisic such as dysfuncional aitude. Behaviourally oriented quesionnaires tend to have a situaional focus. Projecive personality tests ( ambiguous simuli such as inkblots are presented and responses are thought to be determined by unconscious processes -- psychoanalyic paradigm) Tests of family funcioning ( self report quesionnaire used to assess percepions of family environment and funcioning or parental characterisics) Tests of cogniion ( endorsement (self-report) and producion assessments of cogniive products, processes and structures). Intelligence tests : assessment of current mental funcioning, used to predict school performance.
