Reality Testing
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Biased decision-making: developing an understanding of how positive and negative relationships may skew judgments.

30 Aug 2009 The current experiment examines if and when children consider the possibility of relationships skewing judgments when evaluating judgments in different contexts. Eighty-seven 6-year-olds, 8-year-olds, 10-year-olds, and adults heard stories about ... Read more...

Impaired self-reflection in psychiatric disorders among adults: a proposal for the existence of a network of semi independent functions.

14 Jul 2009 Self-reflection plays a key role in healthy human adaptation. Self-reflection might involve different capacities which may be impaired to different degrees relatively independently of one another. Variation in abilities for different forms of ... Read more...

Parental optimism in poor prognosis pediatric cancers.

29 Jun 2009 OBJECTIVE: The objectives were to describe parent-rated and physician-rated prognosis in a wide range of pediatric cancers and to describe the prevalence and predictors of parental prognostic optimism in poor prognosis pediatric cancer patients. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Reality Testing'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Biased decision-making: developing an understanding of how positive and negative relationships may skew judgments. 30 Aug 2009
• Impaired self-reflection in psychiatric disorders among adults: a proposal for the existence of a network of semi independent functions. 14 Jul 2009
• Parental optimism in poor prognosis pediatric cancers. 29 Jun 2009
• Estimating distance in real and virtual environments: Does order make a difference? 29 Jun 2009
• Formal thought disorder, neuropsychology and insight in schizophrenia. 10 Jun 2009
• How avatar customizability affects children's arousal and subjective presence during junk food-sponsored online video games. 30 May 2009
• Presence relates to distinct outcomes in two virtual environments employing different learning modalities. 30 May 2009
• Temporo-parietal junction activity in theory-of-mind tasks: falseness, beliefs, or attention. 30 May 2009
• Toward a model of impaired reality testing in rats. 19 May 2009
• Anomalous subjective experience and psychosis risk in young depressed patients. 14 May 2009
• Long-term memory for the terrorist attack of September 11: flashbulb memories, event memories, and the factors that influence their retention. 29 Apr 2009
• Automatic optimism: the affective basis of judgments about the likelihood of future events. 29 Apr 2009
• Training software using virtual-reality technology and pre-calculated effective dose data. 29 Apr 2009
• Using the rorschach reality-fantasy scale (rfs) for assessing mental functioning in adults exposed to constant threat of terror. 30 Mar 2009
• Treatment monitoring: changes in affective distress and dependency following symptom alleviation of eating disorders. 30 Mar 2009
• Time and timelessness: inscription and representation. 30 Mar 2009
• Behavioral indications of object-presence in haptic virtual environments. 30 Mar 2009
• Organization of cognitive control within the lateral prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia. 30 Mar 2009
• Reality = relevance? Insights from spontaneous modulations of the brain's default network when telling apart reality from fiction. 9 Mar 2009
• Neural correlates of children's theory of mind development. 27 Feb 2009

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Technical information about 'Reality Testing'

Definition: The individual's objective evaluation of the external world and the ability to differentiate adequately between it and the internal world; considered to be a primary ego function.

Descriptor UI: D011936

Alternative terms: Reality Testing; Reality Testings; Testing, Reality; Testings, Reality;

Tree Number: F01.752.747.189.508; F02.739.794.206.508;

History Note: 91(79); was see under EGO 1979-90

Technical Notes: note category: not a diag test: "ego function that consists of the objective evaluation & judgment of the external world"; no qualif