PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT CORE

CORE 3将利用加州理工学院心理评估实验室（PAL），该实验室的使命是为人类研究参与者提供心理测量方面的招募和全面集中测试。目前，PAL每周提供一天的时间来获得认知能力，人格特质，精神病史和心理社会背景的测量，作为加州理工学院脑成像中心的一部分。加州理工学院的研究人员使用这些信息进行纳入和排除筛选，在组分析中作为协变量进行统计学使用，并在研究个体差异的研究中进行跨学科的统计比较。这一范围将扩大到孔蒂中心的项目，所有这些项目都包括关于个体差异的目标，所有这些项目都依赖于对研究参与者进行充分的招募、筛选和定性。因此，核心3与核心2一样，将利用现有机制为中心的所有四个科学项目提供关键服务。Core 3将不提供任何临床服务。核心3将由林恩保罗博士，一个有执照的临床心理学家指导;拉尔夫阿道夫博士将是一个共同的Pl。 有四个目标：受试者招募;受试者筛选;基本心理评估（包括人口统计学、智商、基本感知）;以及与项目所述实验相关的问题解决技能评估（推理、逻辑、数学复杂性）。

CORE 3 will utilize the Caltech Psychological Assessment Laboratory (PAL), whose mission is to provide recruitment and comprehensive, centralized testing of human research participants on psychological measures. Currently the PAL provides one day per week for obtaining measures of cognitive abilities, personality traits, psychiatric history, and psychosocial background, as part of the Caltech Brain Imaging Center. Researchers at Caltech use this information for inclusion and exclusion screening, for statistical use as covariates in group analyses, and for statistical comparison across subjects in research studies that investigate individual differences. This scope will be expanded for the Projects in the Conte Center, all of which include Aims regarding individual differences, and all of which rely on adequate recruitment, screening, and characterization of research participants. Thus, Core 3, like Core 2, will leverage an existing mechanism to enable a critical service for all of the four scientific Projects of the Center. Core 3 will not provide any clinical services. Core 3 will be directed by Dr. Lynn Paul, a licensed clinical psychologist; Dr. Ralph Adolphs will be a co-Pl. There are four Aims: subject recruitment; subject screening; basic psychological assessment (including demographics, IQ, basic perception); and assessment of problem solving skills relevant to the experiments described under the Projects (reasoning, logic, sophistication in math).