PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Fender Wide Range, Impulsivity, North American Racing Team
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Psyc31 chapter 4: the rationale of deficit measurement. Neuropsychological assessment has its emphasis on the identification and measurement of psychological deficits. Neuropsychological assessment is also concerned with the documentation and description of preserved functions. Some degree of cognitive impairment accompanies almost all brain dysfunction and is a diagnostically significant feature of many neurological disorders. If one only relies on examining test scores and their deviations without taking into consideration all of the relevant clinical, historical, and observational data in evaluating a patient, misclassification can become a considerable problem. The concept of normal behavioral deficit presupposes some ideal, normal, or prior level of functioning against which the patient"s performance may be measured. Comparison standard may be normative (derived from an appropriate population) or individual (derived from the patient"s history or present characteristics), depending on the patient, the behavior being evaluated, and the assessments" purpose.
