Exam 4: Classification and Assessment of Abnormal Behavior

What is the main advantage of projective personality tests over other forms of personality tests?

A categorical approach assumes that

The case of Michael presented in your text illustrates comorbidity because

One of the main limitations of modern brain imaging techniques in the field of abnormal psychology is that

A psychologist wants to obtain a measure of children's attention spans under quiet conditions.She arranges for a group of children to meet individually with a research assistant who reads each child a list of numbers and then asks the child to repeat the numbers in reverse order.A week later the children repeat this task.The psychologist finds that the scores that each child received at week one and at week two tend to be very similar.She concludes that this test has high

Your text suggests the possibility that the eating disorder known as bulimia could be listed as a culture-bound syndrome; what fact best supports this view?

Describe the three primary goals of clinical assessment procedures,and give an example of each.

An actuarial procedure of interpretation of psychological tests relies on

What is a limitation of the use of psychological assessment?

The scale on the MMPI-2 that measures physical symptoms that cannot be traced to a medical illness is called the __________ scale.

A psychologist is reviewing results of the MMPI-2 test administered to a client who was mandated by a judge to seek therapy.The psychologist is concerned that the client may not have answered the questions consistently and honestly.Which part of the MMPI-2 will be of special interest to this psychologist?

One of the main advantages of modern brain imaging techniques is that they may

A psychologist conducts an interview and administers several psychological tests in order to evaluate the nature of a person's problem and to formulate a treatment plan.What term is used to describe this process?

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual is published by

In the classification of intellectual ability,psychologists determine how much intelligence a person has on a particular set of tasks; such a classification system is known as

Culture-bound syndromes in DSM are also known as idioms of distress because they represent

Psychological __________ is the process of gathering information in an attempt to understand a patient.

Mental disorders are currently classified on the basis of

Projective tests

DSM-5 diagnoses are grouped under 22 primary headings based on