Clinical Psychology, Bess 2016 ch 7-10

In which of the following ways does the most recent revision of the Stanford-Binet, the SB5, differ from the Wechsler series of tests?

A and B it covers the entire life-span(ages 2-85+) in one test. it features five distinct factors

Which of the following is a basic, implicit assumption about personality that is shared among both objective and projective personality measures?

A. Personality is a stable, internal construct. B. Assessing personality requires a high degree of inference. C. Client behaviors are signs of deep-seated, underlying issues or problems, sometimes taking the form of DSM diagnoses. ((D. all of the above)))))

Which of the following is a criticism of the MMPI-2 and MMPI-A?

A. They are too lengthy. B. They are susceptible to "faking" by sophisticated clients who can outwit the Validity scales. ((C. Both A and B.))

The Halstead-Reitan is

A. a battery of 8 standardized neuropsychological tests. B. used to provide hypotheses about brain damage, including specific cognitive impairments or physiological regions of the brain that may be deficient.

The MMPI-2 is the

A. most popular objective personality test. B. most psychometrically sound personality test. C. product of empirical criterion keying. [D. all of the above]

_____, the Chair of the Task Force for DSM-IV, has been a vocal critic of DSM-5.

Allen Frances

Which of the following was NOT a disorder revision from DSM-IV-TR to ¬DSM-5?

Asperger's disorder was divided into two new diagnoses: Asperger's type A and Asperger's type B

_____ is known as the founding father of the current mental disorder diagnostic system.

Emil Kraepelin

DSM-5 continues to use the multiaxial diagnostic system first introduced in DSM-IV-TR.

False

Dimensional approaches to diagnosis were introduced in DSM-5

False

Lightner Witmer developed harmful dysfunction theory.

False

The multiaxial diagnostic system was first introduced in DSM-II.

False

_____ refers to a person's cognitive capacity. _____ refers to what a person has accomplished

Intelligence; Achievement

____ conceptualized intelligence as numerous distinct abilities with little relationship to each other.

Louis Thurstone

____ developed specific categories of abnormality, including melancholia, mania, and dementia.

Philippe pinel

The _____ features cards depicting interpersonal scenes.

Thematic apperception test

Internet gaming disorder is listed in the "Emerging Measures and Models" section of the DSM-5.

True

A specific learning disorder may be diagnosed by clinical psychologists when

a child's achievement, as measured by achievement tests and school performance, is much lower than expected levels of achievement for people of the same age.

The WIAT-III is

a comprehensive achievement test for patients age 4 to 50.

Hippocrates conceptualized abnormality as

an imbalance of bodily fluids

Projective personality tests

assumes that people will project their personalities onto unstructured, ambiguous stimuli

The _____ is a 21-item self-report test that assesses depressive symptoms in adults and adolescents.

beck depression inventory-II BDI-II

Listening can be broken down into even more fundamental building blocks of attending behaviors, including

both eye contact and body language vocal qualities and verbal tracking

_____ questions focus on apparently contradictory information provided by clients.

confronting

Which of the following had a significant influence on the creation of the first edition of the DSM?

development of an early categorization system by the U.S. army and veterans administration used to diagnose and treat soldiers returning from world war 2

The _____ approach to diagnosis utilizes a continuum upon which a person falls; the _____ approach employs a definitive "has"/"has not" system.

dimensional; categorical

"Who in your family has been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder?" is an example of what type of interviewing style?

directive

Which of the following is NOT a way in which an interviewer can establish good rapport with clients?

disclose personal information to the client, demonstrating the trust inherent in the therapeutic relationship.

Candor, grace, and humility are components that are universal to all interviews.

false

Construct validity is the extent to which an assessment technique provides consistent results.

false

In a survey of therapists and nonprofessionals, Devlin & Nasar (2012) found that the preferred style of a clinician's office was "hard," or institutional and overly modern.

false

Manualized assessment is an approach to assessment focusing on "what works" as indicated by empirical data.

false

The BDI-II is a self-report questionnaire including 434 true/false items.

false

The MMPI-2 was designed for patients age 15 to 21.

false

The RBANS is an intelligence test for children

false

The Wechsler series of intelligence tests is comprised of four different tests, one for each of four different age groups.

false

Thorndike created the concept of "g" to represent general intelligence.

false

_____, in which a psychologist provides the patient with the results of tests or interviews that have been conducted, is common to all kinds of psychological assessment.

feedback

Cattell proposed the existence of two separate intelligences: _____ intelligence, the ability to reason when faced with novel problems, and _____ intelligence, the body of knowledge one has accumulated as a result of life experiences.

fluid; crystallized

_____ is the extent to which an assessment technique consists of items that are consistent with one another.

internal reliability

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of the categorical approach to diagnosis?

it provides a great deal of freedom and flexibility when diagnosing patients

Which type of interview is most often employed in medical settings as a means of quickly assessing how the client is functioning at the time of the evaluation?

mental status exam

In contrast to relying on a sole method of assessment, a _____ approach would incorporate tests of different types, interview data, observations, and other sources of information.

multimethod

_____ questions are utilized in the nondirective interviewing style, while the directive interviewing style typically consists of _____ questions.

open-ended; closed ended

_____ personality tests feature ambiguous stimuli and an open-ended range of client responses. _____ personality tests include unambiguous test items, offer clients a limited range of responses, and are objectively scored.

projective; objective

Those who have exerted the most influence on the disorders included in the DSM are generally members of which profession?

psychiatry

_____ introduced the concept of "g," intelligence as a general, singular characteristic.

spearman

A(n) _____ interview contains a predetermined, planned sequence of questions that an interviewer asks a client. A(n) _____ interview involves no predetermined or planned questions.

structured; unstructured

_____ usually involves tying together various topics that have been discussed and identifying themes that recurred during the interview.

summarizing

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

the MCMI-III was published in 1960 to correspond with the publication of DSM-III

Which of the following statements in NOT true of the MMPI-2?

the MMPI-2 is both the most popular and the most psychometrically sound projective personality test used by clinical psychologist

Which of the following is NOT one of the new features or disorders in DSM-5?

the global assessment of functioning was renormed for the DSM-5

Which of the following is NOT true of the three Wechsler intelligence tests?

they feature limited normative data that was last updated in 1990s

"Can you tell me more about your feelings of hostility?" is an example of a nondirective style.

true

Behavioral assessment views client behaviors as the problem of interest, not as signs of underlying issues.

true

Behavioral observation is also known as naturalistic observation.

true

Clinical utility is the extent to which an assessment technique improves delivery of services or client outcome.

true

Specific learning disorder is diagnosed by comparing a patient's achievement (as measured by achievement tests and performance at school or work) and expected levels of achievement for people of the same age.

true

The Bender-Gestalt-II is the most commonly used neuropsychological screen among clinical psychologists.

true

The _____ is a memory test frequently used to assess individuals age 16-90 who are suspected to have memory problems due to brain injury, dementia, substance abuse, or other factors

wechlser memory scale- 4 WMS-IV