Which of the Following Statements Is True Regarding the Assessment

question 12

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is true regarding the assessment of mental status?

• A)Mental status assessment diagnoses specific psychiatric disorders.
• B)Mental disorders occur in response to everyday life stressors.
• C)Mental status functioning is inferred through assessment of an individual's behaviors.
• D)Mental status can be assessed directly,just like other systems of the body (e.g. ,cardiac and breath sounds).

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Definitions:

Inaccuracies

Errors or mistakes in information or details.

Schemas

Frameworks of knowledge and assumptions that we have about people, objects, and events.

Bartlett

Frederic Bartlett, a pioneering cognitive psychologist known for his work on memory and cognition, particularly on how people reconstruct the past.

Misinformation Effect

Erroneous recollections of witnessed events that result from information learned after the fact.