Diagnosis and Classification Issues
This criterion for abnormality refers to behaviour or characteristics that are statistically uncommon within a population.
What is statistical infrequency?
This type of question encourages clients to provide detailed answers in their own words rather than selecting from a limited set of responses.
What is an open-ended question?
This psychologist proposed that performance across different cognitive tasks is influenced by a general intellectual ability, often referred to by this single letter.
Who is Charles Spearman, and what is g?
This edition of the DSM, published in 1980, introduced explicit diagnostic criteria and a major shift toward a more systematic, research-informed approach to psychiatric classification.
What is the DSM-III?
When an interviewer restates the content of what a client has said in their own words, this interviewing technique is being used.
What is paraphrasing?
Unlike fluid intelligence, this form of intelligence reflects accumulated knowledge, vocabulary, and skills acquired through education and life experience.
What is crystallized intelligence?
This psychologist is associated with developing an influential system for classifying mental disorders based on patterns of symptoms and clinical observation.
Who is Emil Kraepelin?
This interviewing technique involves identifying and drawing attention to inconsistencies or contradictions in a client's statements.
What is confrontation?
On an intelligence test, this type of score indicates the percentage of people in the normative sample who scored at or below an individual's score.
What is a percentile rank?
Introduced in DSM-III, this approach organized diagnoses across several separate domains, including clinical disorders, personality disorders, medical conditions, psychosocial stressors, and overall functioning.
What was the multiaxial system?
Unlike a general clinical interview, this type of interview uses questions specifically designed to assess whether a client meets established diagnostic criteria.
What is a diagnostic interview?
This type of intelligence involves adapting to new situations, recognizing patterns, and solving problems that cannot necessarily be answered using previously acquired knowledge.
What is fluid intelligence?
This is one major criticism of categorical diagnostic systems: individuals who receive the same diagnosis may have very different combinations and levels of symptoms.
What is within-diagnosis heterogeneity?
This type of interview is used when a client presents with an urgent psychological concern requiring immediate attention, such as imminent suicide risk.
What is a crisis interview?
This neuropsychological test battery is specifically designed for children between the ages of 3 and 16 and assesses several areas of neuropsychological functioning.
What is the NEPSY-II?