Exam 3: Assessment and Diagnosis

On psychological tests, the standard deviation gives an indication of

Similar rates for all disorders are found for males and females in Canadian culture.

Both structured and unstructured clinical interviews are used for screening, diagnosis, treatment planning, and

Your text presents the case of Kathy Buckley, a comedienne and inspirational speaker, misdiagnosed in childhood as having mental retardation. When accurately diagnosed some time later, what was found to be the actual disorder?

Based on clinical prediction, psychologists are able to indicate potential future behaviours in an individual they have interviewed.

The Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) would be termed a "disorder-specific scale."

Critics have charged that normal variations in human behaviour have been over-medicalized by fitting them with diagnostic labels.

Whereas the earliest version of the DSM reflected a _____ perspective on abnormal behaviour, the current DSM-5 reflects a _____ perspective on abnormal behaviour.

Desmond is being seen by a psychologist for assessment. As part of the process, he was given a series of pictures and asked to make up a story about each image. The examiner then interpreted the stories according to his theoretical orientation. What projective test was given to Desmond?

Busy physicians have access to very brief screening devices to assess the presence of psychological problems.

Rachael is asked to record her cigarette cravings as they occur each day over the course of a week. She writes down how often she feels the urge to smoke, how long the cravings last, and her behaviour and thoughts about each episode. Within a behavioural paradigm, this activity recording would be known as

A client is diagnosed as having an anxiety disorder using a categorical system of classification. Knowing this, what else might you suspect about this client?

When considering a "normative" approach to interpreting a patient's score on an assessment instrument, the psychologist is interested in comparing the patient's score with

Differential diagnoses refer to multiple labels given to the same person by a clinician.

From a practical standpoint, accurate diagnoses direct the psychologist toward

A psychologist is conducting an assessment of a child who appears to have high distractibility in a classroom setting. The psychologist is interested in what happens just before the child is distracted from a task, how the child behaves during the distracted period, and what happens immediately after the task disruption. In assessing the relationship between situational influences and behaviour, the psychologist is using a(n) _____ analysis.

If a psychologist wanted to test the effectiveness of a behavioural intervention for test anxiety, she would most likely choose what sort of assessment?

Of the many factors influencing the choice of assessment tools, one of the most important factors affecting a clinician's choice is the

The construction of the 567-item Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) took a novel approach to test construction known as

A commonly used brief questionnaire is the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), which: