Psychometry – 1

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1. Adaptive Behaviour Scales are used to assess people with learning disabilities.
2. The Beck Depression Inventory was designed to be administered by a trained psychologist.
3. The BPRS is used to screen for psychiatric disorders in the general population.
4. The Clifton Assessment Procedures for the Elderly (CAPE) can identify intellectual deterioration.
5. In a selective attention task the target stimulus is presented amongst a series of random stimuli on a computer screen.
6. The GHQ is used to rule out physical health problems.
7. Goldstein’s Object Sorting Test distinguishes between depression and depressive pseudodementia.
8. The Hawthorne effect includes a visual percept.
9. The Hayling Sentence Completion test assesses dorsolateral prefrontal cortical function.
10. Standardized intelligence tests can be modified to suit the individual.
11. The Manchester scale is a self-rated questionnaire.
12. MMPI is used to assess new antidepressants.
13. The Mill Hill Vocabulary Scale (MHVS) can identify intellectual deterioration.
14. ‘Pathways to Independence’ is used to assess people with mental handicap.
15. Formal psychological testing is essential for the assessment of premorbid personality.
16. The proverb interpretation test distinguishes between dementia and depressive pseudodementia.
17. In subcortical dementia, recall is more disturbed than recognition.
18. The Rey-Osterrieth test is used to assess personality.
19. Spearman’s work on intelligence used factor analysis.
20. Reasoning is a component of intelligence as defined by Sternberg.
21. Patients with Parkinson’s disease perform poorly on set-shifting tasks.
22. The Stroop test is used to assess selective attention.
23. The Trail Making Test is a test for memory.
24. In WAIS, digit span is relatively preserved in old age as compared to vocabulary.
25. The Wisconsin Card Sorting Test is sensitive to frontal damage.