PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Rorschach Test, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
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Chapter 4: assessment: process of gathering information about people"s symptoms and the possible causes of those symptoms; used to determine diagnosis, diagnosis: label attached to a set of symptoms that tend to occur with one another. Narrow x-ray beams are passed through a person"s head in a single. Amount of radiation absorbed by each beam is measured. From these measurements, a computer program constructs an. 3. image that looks like a slice of the brain. It travels through blood to the brain, where it is accumulated in the. 2. active parts, which need fdg"s glucose for nutrition. Positrons are emitted as the isotope decays, which collide with electrons, annihilating both and converting them to photons, which travel away from each other in opposite directions. Binet intelligence test and wechsler adult intelligence scale; designed to measure basic intellectual abilities (abstract reasoning, verbal fluency and spatial memory)
