Exam 3: Assessment and Classification of Mental Disorders

Nicole is shown a series of ambiguous pictures and is then asked to tell a story about each of them. If this is a psychological test, it is a ____. Self-report inventory

Which statement regarding the validity of psychological and medical tests is accurate?

Rose is being given a self-report inventory to assess her general personality traits. What kinds of questions or tasks is she likely to be given?

These tests require test-takers to answer specific written questions. They are scored in a predetermined way, and scores are easily compared with those from a standardization sample. Which assessment fits the above description?

Which statement about the draw-a-person test is accurate?

Dr. Cooper says, "What abnormal psychology needs is a system of categories for different patterns of behavior that can be agreed on by all professionals." Dr. Cooper is asking for a(n) ____.

With magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ____.

Self-report inventories, unlike projective tests, are ____.

Unlike the Halstead-Reitan and the Bender-Gestalt Visual-Motor tests, EEGs and MRIs are ____.

What is a common criticism of PET testing?

Teachers in a school are interested in finding a psychological test that predicts future achievement. Which statement best reflects what is known about the existence of such a test?

What is a criticism regarding the decisions concerning diagnostic categories in the DSM-5?

What three criteria are commonly used to evaluate psychological assessment procedures? Describe each criterion in detail, and then apply each to the assessment of a problem such as severe anxiety.

Carla sees the psychologist at the mental health center at her college because she is often sad and frequently unable to get out of bed. Although Carla has symptoms of depression, the symptoms are mild. The psychologist is most likely to ____.

A critic of personality inventories says, "These tests have no way of detecting faking or defensiveness in the individuals who take them. Worse, they never include norms for responses of people from different cultural groups." Which response to these criticisms is accurate?

Which statement about the Halstead-Reitan neuropsychological battery is accurate?

What is known about the relationship between IQ scores and environmental influences?

The TAT, a projective personality test, asks subjects to ____.

Dr. Frederick is developing a new test for binge eating disorders. She finds that people who score high on the test engage in more binge eating and other forms of abnormal eating behaviors than people who score low on the test. These results indicate that the test has ____.

Oscar is suspected of having brain damage. He is given more than ten psychological tests to assess memory, abstract concept formation, auditory perception, and attention. The whole testing process takes more than six hours. It is likely that Oscar was given the ____.