Exam 4: Psychological Assessment and Research Methods

One of the oldest and most well established brain imaging techniques is the electroencephalogram (EEG), which reads the brain's electrical activity via electrodes placed on the scalp.

Which of the following is NOT true of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)?

The Mental Status Examination is the most frequently used structured clinical interview.

According to the text, which of the following is NOT true of alternate form reliability estimates?

When the psychological problems of a patient are fairly well known, __________ tests are appropriate.

Which of the following is NOT true of the actuarial approach?

What is epidemiology? What do the terms incidence and prevalence refer to?

Describe the components of a cognitive-behavioural assessment. What are factors that can affect the accuracy of the data?

Though based on the investigation of an individual subject, the _____ design avoids many of the criticisms of the case study by using experimentally accepted procedures.

A researcher aiming to demonstrate that stable, internal and global (self-blame) attributions for negative events cause depression must achieve a correlation of +0.50 or greater between measures of attribution and depression symptoms.

Generally, psychologists are interested in correlation coefficients only if they are greater than +/-.65.

Which of the following is true of the Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt test?

Incidence refers to the frequency of a disorder in a population at a given point or period of time.

Psychological assessment

According to the text, the most frequently used semistructured interview in psychiatric settings is the

In the TADS experiment, described in the text, the researchers used a double-blind procedure, meaning that

According to the text, construct validity

Without __________, you cannot have __________.

According to the text, which of the following is NOT true of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)?

Define psychological assessment. In your answer, discuss and show full knowledge of the following concepts: assessment tools, clinical interview, psychological testing, reliability, and validity.