Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Temporal Lobe, Intellectual Disability, Self-Reference

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

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Physicians may not know how to handle a certain patient and therefore refer them. Selection of appropriate psychological tests and measurements. Differential diagnosis is a process on which a clinician weighs how likely it is that a person has one diagnosis instead of another: diagnosis: refers to the identification of an illness. Screening: identify psychological problems or predict the risk for future problems. In a screening assessment, all members of a group are given a brief measure for which some identified cut-off score indicates the possibility of significant problems. Example: depression scale (must score 16 or higher: schizophrenia, the risk of future problems is more likely than someone with moderate depression. Selection of appropriate psychological tests and measurements: diagnosis: identification of illness. The more information you can gather the better. Contact teachers, parents, relatives, look at standardized testing: treatment plan: After collecting all this data and achieving the proper diagnosis you come up with a treatment plan.