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mental examination

a comprehensive evaluation of an individual’s behavior, attitudes, and intellectual abilities for the purpose of establishing or ruling out pathology.

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January 30th 2025

ipsative method

ipsative method

a type of research procedure in which a person’s responses (e.g., scores) are compared only to other responses of that person rather than to the responses of other people. It is thus an idiographic approach rather than a normative one.