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a teenage with difficulty with school work - zkadhem
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In working up a 17-year-old high school student who is having considerable difficulty with schoolwork, and is socially inappropriate at times, you wish to obtain psychological testing to ascertain his abilities to perform what is expected of him in his class. Which of the following tests is most appropriate?
A. Halstead-Reitan Battery (HRB)
B. Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
C. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
D. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
E. Bender-Gestalt Test

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The answer is: B

The Bender-Gestalt Test is a test of visual motor coordination and is useful in both children and adults. Initially it was used as a measure of a child's maturational level, according to how many of the nine designs a child could reproduce at various levels of accuracy. It is now used most frequently with adults as a screening device for signs of organic brain dysfunction. It can also be used in assessing mental retardation, aphasias, psychoses, neuroses, and malingering.

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, an objective self-report test to assess personality, is one of the most widely used tests for clinical and research purposes. It provides scores on 10 clinical scales: hypochondriasis (Hs), depression (D), hysteria (Hy), psychopathic deviation (Pd), masculinity-femininity (Mf), paranoia (Pa), psychasthenia (Pt), schizophrenia (Sc), hypomania (Ma), and social distance (Si); plus 3 additional scales: a lie scale (L) to detect attempts to present oneself in a good light, a frequency scale (F) of unconventional beliefs and attitudes, and a correction scale (K) for guardedness or defensiveness in test-taking. The MMPI, like all tests, is most effectively used in conjunction with other information about the patient. It is currently being restandardized based on a contemporary sample of normal people.

The Halstead-Reitan Battery of neurologic tests was developed in the early 1940s to determine the location and effects of specific brain lesions. It is composed of 10 tests: category test (to identify common elements in a set of pictures for concept function, abstraction, and visual acuity), tactual performance test, rhythm test, finger-oscillation test, speech-sounds perception test, trial-making test, critical flicker frequency, time sense test, aphasia screening test, and sensory-perception test. The usefulness of the Halstead-Reitan battery can be enhanced by using it in conjunction with the MMPI and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.

The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) is the best standardized test of intelligence in use today. There are 6 verbal subtests and 5 performance subtests and it yields a verbal IQ, a performance IQ, and a combined IQ. The 11 subtests are general information, comprehension (proverbs), arithmetic, similarities (between two things), digit-span (recall of two to nine digits), vocabulary (definitions), picture completion (with a missing part), block design (matched color and designs), picture arrangements (arrange series to tell a story), object assembly (organize objects in order), and digit symbol (pair symbols with digits). There is also a scale for children ages 5 through 15, and a preschool version for ages 4 to 6 years.

The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), designed by Henry Murray and Christiana Morgan in 1943, has 30 pictures with ambiguity in each picture. The subject creates a story about each picture that reveals approach to organization, sequence, vocabulary, style, preconceptions, assumptions, and outcome. It is especially useful for inferring motivational aspects of behavior rather than as a diagnostic test.
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