Psychological Assessment & Evaluation Flashcards
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A psychologist is asked to assess an adult client for malingering following a personal injury lawsuit. Which instrument is MOST specifically designed for this purpose?
Answer: Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS)
The SIMS is a self-report screening tool specifically designed to detect feigned psychiatric and cognitive symptoms, making it a first-line malingering measure.
The Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery (HRNB) Impairment Index is calculated based on performance on how many tests?
Answer: 7
The HRNB Impairment Index is derived from seven component tests and ranges from 0.0 (no impairment) to 1.0 (maximum impairment).
Which of the following best describes incremental validity in psychological assessment?
Answer: The degree to which a new measure adds predictive power beyond existing measures
Incremental validity refers to the improvement in prediction or decision-making that a new assessment tool provides over and above what existing instruments already offer.
A neuropsychologist uses the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT). What does a significantly lower Trial VI (delayed recall) score relative to Trial V indicate?
Answer: Accelerated forgetting over the delay interval
A steep drop from Trial V (last learning trial) to Trial VI (30-minute delay) indicates accelerated forgetting, suggesting impaired memory consolidation.
The Adaptive Behavior Assessment System, Third Edition (ABAS-3) is MOST relevant when evaluating for which diagnosis?
Answer: Intellectual disability
The ABAS-3 measures adaptive behavior across conceptual, social, and practical domains, which is a required criterion for diagnosing intellectual disability alongside IQ assessment.
Which term describes the phenomenon in which a client's test score is influenced more by regression toward the mean than by actual change between two assessment time points?
Answer: Regression artifact
Regression artifact occurs when extreme scores on the first testing move closer to the population mean on retest, falsely appearing as improvement or deterioration.
The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) was specifically designed to discriminate anxiety from depression by focusing on which symptom cluster?
Answer: Somatic and physiological symptoms of anxiety
The BAI emphasizes somatic symptoms of anxiety (e.g., palpitations, sweating, dizziness) to minimize overlap with depressive symptom content.