Deck 5: Observations, Inferences, and Behavioral Assessment

Question 1

Mental status exams involve:

A) Assessment of concentration, memory, and judgment
B) Substance use and family history
C) Orientation and perception
D) (a) and (c)

Answer 1

(a) and (c)

Question 2

When making inferences about an individual's behavior helping professionals need to be aware of:

A) Confirmatory biases
B) Heuristics
C) (a) and (b)
D) None of the above

Answer 2

(a) and (b)

Question 3

Counselors typically make informal observation about which of the following aspects of a client's presentation during a counseling session?

A) Emotional lability
B) Immediate recall
C) Working memory
D) Vocabulary knowledge

Answer 3

Emotional lability

Question 4

Which of the following observations procedures in an example of a formal assessment method?

A) Counselor description of client affect
B) Counselor description of client mood
C) Direct observation form
D) The couple observation form revised

Question 5

A counselor will typically make observations about an individual's affect. Which of the following dimensions of affect do counselors typically observe?

A) Self-report of mood
B) Range of emotional expression
C) Quality of feeling words used
D) Amount of feeling words used

Question 6

Affect is the term use to describe:

A) The impact the counselor has on the client
B) A client's report of how she or he is feeling
C) Counselor's observation of a person's emotional states
D) Blunt monotone speech

Question 7

A counselor noted in his evaluation that his client seemed "pre-occupied." The counselor was making a(n) _________ about his client:

A) Observation
B) Formal assessment
C) Diagnosis
D) Inference

Question 8

The availability heuristic is a type of human bias that involves

A) Implicitly favoring those who are most similar in ethnic background
B) Judging how frequently an event occurs using personal data
C) Judging how available and engaged the client appears
D) Selectively recalling the first part of an interview

Question 9

A counselor's ability to accurately recall what was said and done during an assessment interview can be impacted by which of the following?

A) Counselor's emotional state during the interview
B) Counselor's use of the representative heuristic
C) The anchoring and recency effect
D) All of the above

Question 10

Delusions differ from obsessions in that:

A) Obsessions involve feelings and delusions focus on thoughts
B) Delusions are more rigid
C) Obsessions involve images that violate cultural norms
D) Delusions are more idiosyncratic beliefs and perceptions

Question 11

The formal dimensions of a mental status evaluation include all of the following except:

A) A person's understanding of proverbs
B) A person's immediate and short-term recall
C) A person's attire and hygiene
D) A person's orientation to time and place

Question 12

Prosody refers to:

A) Tangential disconnected thoughts
B) Speech rate, rhythm, and volume
C) Poetic overly dramatic speech
D) A type of delusional thinking

Question 13

Counselors use formal observation systems for the purpose of:

A) Complying with insurance and government regulations
B) Screening for diagnosis or defining a problem behavior
C) Complying with professional codes of ethics
D) Measuring a person's affect and speech

Question 14

A functional behavior assessment consists of which of the following components?

A) Behavior antecedents
B) Maintaining consequences
C) Hypothesis statement
D) All of the above

Question 15

Which of the following tests is not an example of a standardized mental status exam?

A) Mini-Mental State Examination
B) Optimal Cognitive Functioning Test (OCFT)
C) Modified Mini-Mental State Examinations (3MS)
D) Cognitive Capacity Screening Examination

Question 16

What are two aspects of a client's thinking or thought process that you could observe or inquire about in an assessment interview that would help to make a diagnosis?

Question 17

What is the difference between an informal and formal mental status evaluation?

Question 18

Which aspects of an individual's speech are signs or indicators of a psychiatric disorder?

Question 19

What is the difference between an inference and an observation?

Question 20

What are the various dimensions of emotional expression that a counselor could observe in an individual?