48 Psychometry – 2
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| 1. The Bannister-Fransella Grid is a personality test. |  |
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| 2. The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (Ham-D) are used differently. |  |
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| 3. The Camberwell Assessment of Need (CAN) is used in the general population. |  |
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| 4. The likelihood of Alzheimer’s disease over vascular dementia can be confirmed by a defective clock face drawing. |  |
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| 5. The ‘draw a person’ test is used to distinguish between dementia and depressive pseudodementia. |  |
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| 6. The GHQ is frequently used for psychiatric diagnosis. |  |
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| 7. Hare’s Psychopathy Checklist is validated for use in the general population. |  |
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| 8. The Halstead–Reitan Battery is used for bedside cognitive function assessment. |  |
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| 9. The Ham-D has more cognitive items than the MADRS. |  |
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| 10. Hayling’s test assesses spatial accommodation. |  |
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| 11. Kendrick Assessment Scales help to distinguish between dementia and depressive pseudodementia. |  |
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| 12. The McCollough effect always includes a visual percept. |  |
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| 13. A Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) score of below 24 is 60% specific for dementia in the over-65 age group. |  |
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| 14. The reverse calendar test is a semi-quantitative test of cognitive function. |  |
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| 15. Compared to patients with dementia, patients with depressive pseudodementia do less well on the Paired Associated Learning Test. |  |
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| 16. The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is used to assess premorbid personality. |  |
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| 17. The Raven’s Progressive Matrices test gives a percentile score. |  |
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| 18. In assessment of cognitive function, registration is tested by asking the patient to give their telephone number. |  |
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| 19. The Rorschach test is used to measure attitudes. |  |
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| 20. The Stanford–Binet scale is used to assess people with learning disabilities. |  |
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| 21. Sternberg defined the meta-components of intelligence. |  |
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| 22. The Thematic Apperception Test is used to assess personality. |  |
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| 23. The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-III) has five verbal and six performance components. |  |
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| 24. In dementia there is a differential drop in verbal and performance IQ. |  |
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| 25. The Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) is a test for planning. |  |
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ANSWERS
1. The Bannister-Fransella Grid is a personality test.
False: The Bannister-Fransella Grid is a test of schizophrenic thought disorder, not personality.
2. The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (Ham-D) are used differently.
True: The interviewer completes the Ham-D based on an unstructured interview, using his own observations and information from the patient. It measures the severity of the depressive syndrome. The BDI has 21 items, with 4 statements each. The patients complete them themselves by choosing the statements that best apply to their feelings in the previous week (Gelder et al 2006, p. 66).
