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PsycINFO Expert Searches:

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arrow icon Achievement Measures

achievement measures/
aptitude measures/
comprehension tests/
differential aptitude tests/
educational measurement/
entrance examinations/
gates macginitie reading tests/
general aptitude test battery/
graduate record examination/
iowa tests of basic skills/
metropolitan readiness tests/
minimum competency tests/
modern language aptitude test/
reading measures/
retention measures/
stanford achievement test/
verbal tests/
wide range achievement test/
college entrance examination board scholastic aptitude test/
woodcock johnson psychoeducational battery/
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arrow icon Tomography

computer assisted diagnosis/
(imagery or imaging or image or images).ti,ab,hw,id.
single photon emission.ti,ab,hw,id.
spect.ti,ab,hw,id.
tomography.ti,ab,hw,id.
mri.ti,ab,hw,id.
magnetic resonance.ti,ab,hw,id.
cat scan$1.ti,ab,hw,id.
ct scan$1.ti,ab,hw,id.
positron emission.ti,ab,hw,id.
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arrow icon Language Disorders

communication disorders/
hearing disorders/
language delay/
aurally handicapped/
partially hearing impaired/
language disorders/
speech handicapped/
cleft palate/
retarded speech development/
articulation disorders/
aphasia/
alexia/
dysarthria/
dysphonia/
dysphasia/
echolalia/
mutism/
elective mutism/
stuttering/
speech disorders/
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arrow icon Nonprojective Personality Measures

allport vernon lindzey study values/
authoritarianism rebellion scale/
bannister repertory grid/
barrett lennard relationship inventory/
barron welsh art scale/
beck depression inventory/
bem sex role inventory/
california f scale/
california psychological inventory/
california test of personality/
childrens manifest anxiety scale/
childrens personality questionnaire/
differential personality inventory/
edwards personal preference schedule/
edwards personality inventory/
edwards social desirability scale/
embedded figures testing/
eysenck personality inventory/
fear survey schedule/
fundamental interpersonal relation orientation behavior questionnaire/
general health questionnaire/
goldstein scheerer object sort test/
gough adjective check list/
guilford zimmerman temperament survey/
high school personalty questionnaire/
kupfer detre self rating scale/
kirton adaption innovation inventory/
learys interpersonal check list/
marlowe crowne social desirability scale/
maudsley personality inventory/
memory for designs test/
millon clinical multiaxial inventory/
minnesota multiphasic personality inventory/
mooney problem check list/
myers briggs type indicator/
neo personality inventory/
nonprojective personality measures/
omnibus personality inventory/
personal orientation inventory/
personality measures/
psychological screening inventory/
repression sensitization scale/
rod-and-frame-test/
rokeach dogmatism scale/
rotter internal external locus of control scale/
sensation seeking scale/
sixteen personality factors questionnaire/
state trait anxiety inventory/
taylor manifest anxiety scale/
tennessee self concept scale/
vinelsocial maturity scale/
welsh figure preference test/
white betz a b scale/
zungs self rating depression scale/
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arrow icon Substance Abuse

alcohol abuse/
problem drinking/
delirium tremens/
alcoholism/
acute alcoholic intoxication/
alcohol intoxication/
chronic alcoholic intoxication/
alcoholic psychosis/
korsakoffs psychosis/
wernickes syndrome/
heroin addiction/
drug addiction/
drug abuse/
drug dependency/
drug overdoses/
driving under the influence/
inhalant abuse/
drug abuse liability/
polydrug abuse/
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arrow icon Attitude Measures

attitude measurement/
attitude measures/
consumer surveys/
interest inventories/
kuder occupational interest survey/
kuder preference record/
least preferred coworker scale/
minnesota teacher attitude inventory/
occupational interest measures/
opinion-attitude-and-interest-survey/
parent attitude research instrument/
preference measures/
strong vocational interest blank/
wilson patterson conservatism scale/
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arrow icon Mental Health Personnel

mental health personnel/
psychiatric nurses/
therapists.hw.
psychiatric social workers/
social workers/
psychiatric aides/
psychiatric hospital staff/
psychologists.hw.
counselors.hw.
psychiatrists.hw.
psychoanalysts.hw.
clinicians.hw.
psychotherapists.hw.
hypnotherapists.hw.
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arrow icon Perceptual Measures

perceptual measures/
psychophysical measurement/
purdue perceptual motor survey/
sensorimotor measures/
speech-and-hearing-measures/
stroop color word test/
wepman auditory discrimination test/
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arrow icon "Talking" Therapies

analytical psychotherapy/
brief psychotherapy/
child psychotherapy/
experiential psychotherapy/
expressive psychotherapy/
geriatric psychotherapy/
group psychotherapy/
individual psychotherapy/
psychotherapeutic breakthrough/
psychotherapeutic counseling/
psychotherapeutic outcomes/
psychotherapeutic processes/
psychotherapeutic resistance/
psychotherapeutic techniques/
psychotherapeutic transference/
insight psychotherapeutic process/
psychoanalysis/
logotherapy/
client centered therapy/
directed reverie therapy/
existential therapy/
gestalt therapy/
insight therapy/
cognitive therapy/
rational emotive therapy/
transactional analysis/
reality therapy/
personal therapy/
cognitive restructuring/
cognitive techniques/
adolescent psychotherapy/
adlerian psychotherapy/
interpersonal psychotherapy/
supportive psychotherapy/
guided imagery/
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arrow icon Developing Nations

developing countr$3.ti.

 

 

arrow icon Neuropsychological Assessment

neuropsychological assessment/
halstead reitan neuropsychological battery/
luria nebraska neuropsychological battery/
wechsler memory scale/
bender gestalt test/
memory for designs test/
mini mental state examination/
wisconsin card sorting test/
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arrow icon Projective Personality Measures

bender gestalt test/
childrens apperception test/
color pyramid test/
franck drawing completion test/
holtzman inkblot technique/
human figures drawing/
incomplete man test/
personality measures/
projective personality measures/
projective techniques/
projective testing technique/
rorschach test/
rosenzweig picture frustration study/
rotter incomplete sentences blank/
sentence completion tests/
szondi test/
thematic apperception test/
zulliger z test/
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arrow icon Tests, Measures, Scales

test.hw.
tests.hw.
testing.hw.
subtests.hw.
pretesting.hw.
posttesting.hw.
inventory.hw.
inventories.hw.
survey.hw.
surveys.hw.
scale.hw.
scales.hw.
score.hw.
scores.hw.
measurement.hw.
measures.hw.
screening.hw.
examination.hw.
examinations.hw.
questionnaire.hw.
questionnaires.hw.
rating.hw.
validity.hw.
psychometrics.hw.
sociograms.hw.
assessment.hw.
sociometry.hw.
battery.hw.
semantic differential/
piagetian tasks/
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arrow icon Intelligence Measures

army general classification test/
benton revised visual retention test/
california test of mental maturity/
columbia mental maturity scale/
creativity measurement/
culture fair intelligence test/
hidden figures test/
frostig developmental test of visual perception/
goodenough harris draw a person test/
illinois test of psycholinguistic abilities/
infant intelligence scale/
intelligence measures/
kaufman assessment battery for children/
kohs block design test/
leiter adult intelligence scale/
lorge thorndike intelligence test/
lowenfeld mosaic test/
miller analogies test/
peabody picture vocabulary test/
porteus maze test/
raven coloured progressive matrices/
raven progressive matrices/
remote associates test/
slosson intelligence test/
stanford binet intelligence scale/
temporal spatial concept scale/
vane kindergarten test/
verbal tests/
wechsler adult intelligence scale/
wechsler bellevue intelligence scale/
wechsler intelligence scale for children/
wechsler memory scale/
wechsler preschool primary scale/
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arrow icon Neurotransmitters

neurotransmitters/
acetylcholine/
aspartic acid/
n methyl d aspartate/
catecholamines/
dopamine/
epinephrine/
norepinephrine/
cholecystokinin/
endorphins/
enkephalins/
gamma aminobutyric acid/
glutamic acid/
glycine/
histamine/
neurotensin/
serotonin/
substance p/
neurokinins/
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arrow icon Racial/Ethnic Populations

race anthropological/
interracial family/
interracial marriage/
interracial offspring/
interethnic family/
racial-and-ethnic-differences/
racial-and-ethnic-groups/
ethnic identity/
ethnic values/
racial-and-ethnic-attitudes/
racial-and-ethnic-relations/
hispanics/
asians/
american indians/
mexican americans/
blacks/
negroes/
whites/
caucasians/
tribes/
inuit/
anglos/
arabs/
racial differences/
minority groups/
gypsies/
alaska natives/
chinese cultural groups/
japanese cultural groups/
korean cultural groups/
vietnamese cultural groups/
hawaii natives/
pacific islanders/
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arrow icon Rehabilitation

rehabilitation.hw.
detoxification/
alcoholics anonymous/
occupational therapy/
physical therapy/
psychosocial rehabilitation/
therapeutic social clubs/
vocational rehabilitation/
supported employment/
vocational evaluation/
work adjustment training/
twelve step programs/
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arrow icon Learning Disorders

learning disorders/
learning disabilities/
reading disabilities/
attention deficit disorder/
minimal brain disorders/
dyslexia/
hyperkinesis/
acalculia/
agraphia/
attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity/
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arrow icon Psychiatric Patients

psychosis.hw.
psychoses.hw.
neurosis.hw.
depression.hw.
schizophrenia.hw.
mania/
psychopathology/
psychopathy/
mental disorders/
psychiatric patients/
affective disorders/
borderline personality/
borderline states/
personality disorders/
dysthymic disorder/
panic disorder/
seasonal affective disorder/
schizotypal personality/
schizoaffective disorder/
schizophreniform disorder/
anxiety disorders/
chronic mental illness/
dissociative identity disorder/
homeless mentally ill/
impulse control disorders/
oppositional defiant disorder/
gender identity disorder/
eating disorders/
bipolar disorder/
dissociative disorders/
explosive disorder/
histrionic personality disorder/
mental disorders due to general medical conditions/
obsessive compulsive disorder/
paraphilias/
pervasive developmental disorders/
schizophrenia disorganized type/
conversion disorder/
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