Question 1

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

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Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

A)  An intelligence test 
B)  A symptom questionnaire 
C)  A projective test 
D)  A personality inventory

Question 3

_____ 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.

Accepted Answer

A)  Projective 
B)  Intelligence 
C)  Objective 
D)  Personality

Question 4

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI):

Accepted Answer

A)  can scan the brain only at specific angles. 
B)  should not be used repeatedly on the same individual. 
C)  does not require exposing the patient to any radiation. 
D)  provides less-detailed images of the brain compared to other technologies.

Question 5

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

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A)  girls in preschool. 
B)  boys in grades three to six. 
C)  teenage girls in grades seven and eight. 
D)  teenage boys in high school.

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

A)  mental illness 
B)  medical health 
C)  mental status 
D)  medical status

Question 7

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 _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  alternate-form reliability 
B)  content validity 
C)  test-retest reliability 
D)  predictive validity

Question 8

Which of the following is NOT true of child psychopathology?

Accepted Answer

A)  Parents' perceptions of their children's well-being are rarely influenced by their own symptoms of psychopathology and their expectations for their children. 
B)  Clinicians and researchers have experienced problems with children's self-reports and often rely on adults to provide the information. 
C)  Parents are considered a reliable source of information because they spend more time with their children than any other adults do. 
D)  A child's psychopathology can be connected to parental behaviors.

Question 9

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  Mood and affect; orientation to place, time, and person 
B)  Orientation to place, time, and person; thought processes 
C)  Thought processes; intellectual functioning 
D)  Mood and affect; appearance and behavior

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Symptom questionnaire 
B)  Personality inventory 
C)  Luria-Nebraska Test 
D)  Computerized tomography (CT) scan

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

A)  differentiating between mental retardation and autism. 
B)  determining different personality types. 
C)  identifying people with brain damage. 
D)  measuring emotional and intellectual abilities.

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

A)  The norms for the original MMPI were not representative of people from a wide range of ethnic and racial backgrounds, age groups, and social classes. 
B)  The concurrent validity and the test-retest reliability of the MMPI have been found to be low. 
C)  The MMPI has limited application as a general screening device for detecting people who are functioning very poorly psychologically. 
D)  The MMPI cannot be translated into different languages to meet the needs of different cultural groups.

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

A)  The text was cumbersome and clinicians had difficulty using the classification. 
B)  The theoretical assumptions of the criteria had no empirical support. 
C)  The criteria were impressionistic, and also influenced by humanistic theory. 
D)  The descriptions of the disorders were abstract and theoretically based.

Question 14

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

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Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

A)  While it was being developed, a large group of possible inventory items was given only to people suffering from various psychological problems. 
B)  The inventory items on the original MMPI cluster into 18 scales that measure different types of psychological characteristics or problems. 
C)  Additional scales have been added to the MMPI-2 to assess vulnerability to eating disorders, substance abuse, and poor functioning at work. 
D)  The test uses one validity scale to determine whether a person responds honestly or distorts her or his answers in a way that might invalidate the test.

Question 16

Which of the following is a limitation of computerized tomography?

Accepted Answer

A)  It does not accurately reveal tumors and injuries. 
B)  It only shows two-dimensional images. 
C)  It exposes patients to X-rays, which can be harmful. 
D)  It provides an image of the brain's activity rather than its structure.

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Content validity 
B)  Internal consistency reliability 
C)  External validity 
D)  Alternate form reliability

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

A)  self-discipline. 
B)  self-regulate. 
C)  self-diagnose. 
D)  self-monitor.

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

A)  predictive 
B)  concurrent 
C)  construct 
D)  face

Question 20

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.

Accepted Answer

A)  predictive 
B)  concurrent 
C)  content 
D)  face

Exam 3: Assessing and Diagnosing Abnormality