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).