Exam 3: Assessing and Diagnosing Abnormality

What is an initial interview? What type of information does the clinician make note of during this interview?

Which of the following is used to assess people's typical ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving?

_____ tests are based on the assumption that people will interpret ambiguous stimuli in line with their current concerns and feelings, their relationships with others, and their conflicts or desires.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI):

Harris and colleagues conducted a study on the influence of labeling children on:

An initial interview in a clinical setting may include a _____ exam, to assess the client's general functioning.

Mark takes a test to measure his general level of anxiety. After taking the test, Mark realizes that the test contains questions only on the physical symptoms of anxiety and no questions on the cognitive symptoms, which are equally important aspects of the phenomenon of anxiety. In this case, the test mostly lacks _____.

Which of the following is NOT true of child psychopathology?

During an initial interview, Diane, a clinician, notes that her client tends to laugh excessively at his own jokes. He has disheveled hair and soiled clothes. Which types of information has Diane noted about her client?

Which of the following is a quick way for a clinician to determine a client's symptoms?

A psychologist would find the Bender-Gestalt Test most useful for:

Which of the following is a criticism leveled against the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)?

Which of the following was a problem with the earlier editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)?

What is meant by validity? What are the different ways in which the validity of a test can be estimated?

Which of the following statements is true about the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)?

Which of the following is a limitation of computerized tomography?

_____ refers to the similarity in people's answers among different parts of the same test.

If direct observation or role-playing is not possible, clinicians may require individuals to:

The extent to which a test measures what it is supposed to measure and not something else altogether is representative of _____ validity.

Jason was taking a test to measure his general level of anxiety. When he glanced over the test, the questions seemed as though they were related to his problem. In this scenario, the test most likely had _____ validity.