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Are there differences between psychological and physical attributes that could justify the lack of these periodic tests in psychology?

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ABSOLUTELY! The physical and mental are often connected. Take, for instance, the Thyriod. If the thyroid is physically unhealthy then it can cause mental disturbances. It can cause a slew of psychological manifestations for someone. When preceived by a psychological professional, they treat the symtoms they interpret and preceive from their paradigm they treat their patient with psychological techniques and medications.

I have seen this first hand where someone can exhibit pyschological disturbances and are incorrectly diagnosed because the psychological professional does not test their physical state.

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  • Welcome to CogSci and thanks for the answer! However, I think the answer does not really address the question. – AliceD Apr 05 '15 at 03:12
  • Thank you for the welcome. Many often lose sight of the fact that the way in which one perceives the world is subjective. Psychology is a very vauge science and based on mostly theories based on human brains interpreting other human brains. I only worked for one of the major research institutions in the nation for about 2 years working on dissertations for phD students. I was not only the applications/systems developer for their experiments BUT due to the lack of intellectual abilities of the student(s), I also had to educate myself by reading and researching the field of cognitive science – ByteSizedGurl Apr 05 '15 at 04:19
  • How do you subjectively perceive this question. What would be an answer that you perceive would be an appropriate answer? – ByteSizedGurl Apr 05 '15 at 04:19
  • You really should not have revised the original question because in doing so it completely changed the concept behind the question. Therefore the orignial question no longer exists.

    :)

     – ByteSizedGurl Apr 05 '15 at 05:23
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    A warm welcome from me as well! However, introducing your bio here in the comments to motivate your answer does nothing but causing confusion (and smells a bit like misuse of appeal to authority). The OP agreed that the linked to question is a duplicate, so let's stick with that. If you are interested in sharing your expertise there is nothing preventing you from posting (and answering!) your own question in a new post, the way you interpreted it! Hope to see you around. – Steven Jeuris Apr 05 '15 at 13:17