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Question #1

Which statement about the use of projective techniques by today’s clinicians is true?

A Projective tests have a more prominent place in the clinician’s repertoire than they did 50 years ago.

B Current clinicians rely on projective tests as a primary source of insight about their patients.

C Projective tests are not used anymore.

D Projective tests are mainly used to gain “supplementary” information these days.

Question #2

Which of the following is NOT a scale of the MMPI?

A anxiety

B psychopathic deviate

C social introversion

D depression

Question #3

The movement that has tried to find the common factors and strategies that “good” therapists use is called:

A uniformity.

B particularity.

C rapprochement.

D idiosyncratic.

Question #4

A prisoner eligible for parole is required to take a polygraph test. Although the prisoner tells the truth in response to one question, the polygraph operator records the response as a lie. According to recent research, this kind of error is:

A very rare; less than 1 percent of true statements are interpreted as lies.

B rare; less than 3 percent of true statements are interpreted as lies.

C unusual; less than 10 percent of true statements are interpreted as lies.

D extremely common; more than one-third of true statements are interpreted as lies.

Question #5

A clinician has developed a test that requires test-takers to tell stories about a series of pictures of city skylines. MOST likely, this new test is a:

A projective test.

B response inventory.

C neuropsychological test.

D personality inventory.

Question #6

This term refers to a sudden psychological disturbance that incapacitates a person but is not used by clinicians.

A nervous breakdown

B mid-life crisis

C panic attack

D online disinhibition effect

Question #7

George is consumed with concern that his house will burn down. Before he leaves, he makes sure that all his appliances are unplugged. He often has to go back home and check to make sure he did not leave any plugged in. Which MMPI-2 scale would he MOST likely score high on?

A social introversion

B psychopathic deviate

C schizophrenia

D psychasthenia

Question #8

Among other questions, a clinical interviewer asks, “How do you feel about yourself today? How do you feel about what’s going on in your life?” MOST likely, the clinical interviewer’s orientation is ________ as she is assessing a person’s self-concept and self-evaluation.

A biological

B behavioral

C humanistic

D psychodynamic

Question #9

More than _____ of companies use social networking sites to help screen job candidates.

A 25%

B 60%

C 40%

D 10%

Question #10

Symptoms such as sadness, loss of appetite, and low energy cluster together to form a:

A syndrome.

B medical condition.

C treatment.

D classification system.

Question #11

Assessment tools such as the Cross-Cutting Symptom Measure are used to provide what kind of information for making a diagnosis?

A categorical

B sociocultural

C psychosocial

D dimensional

Question #12

A patient complains of a phobia. Two lines of questioning by the clinician concern the specific object of the phobia and what the person does when he or she confronts that object. This clinician’s orientation is probably:

A behavioral.

B biological.

C humanistic.

D sociocultural.

Question #13

A student who is quiet in class might be the life of the party on the weekend. Clinical observation of that student in class would lack:

A observer bias.

B an analog.

C validity.

D reactivity.

Question #14

Therapies that have received clear research support are called:

A idiographic.

B meta-analyses.

C outcome complex.

D evidence-based.

Question #15

Those who seem to get worse as a result of therapy may experience all of the following EXCEPT:

A their symptoms may lessen only slightly.

B they may develop new symptoms.

C their symptoms may become more intense.

D they may develop a sense of hopelessness because of their inability to benefit from therapy.

Question #16

To measure tendencies toward depression, an assessment tool asks individuals to record all the times they feel sad. However, individuals report wide variation in the number of “sad” episodes from day to day. This assessment tool has:

A high test–retest reliability and high face validity.

B low test–retest reliability and low face validity.

C high test–retest reliability and low face validity.

D low test–retest reliability and high face validity.

Question #17

A(n) _____ inventory asks about one’s level of anxiety, depression, or anger.

A social skills

B affective

C functional

D cognitive

Question #18

Which test is NOT a projective test?

A Thematic Apperception Test

B Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

C Rorschach

D Draw-a-Person Test

Question #19

When graduate schools choose students based on test scores, college grades, and relevant experience, they are engaging in:

A diagnosis.

B treatment.

C classification.

D assessment.

Question #20

In DSM-5, which diagnostic category is no longer considered an anxiety disorder?

A Asperger’s syndrome

B specific phobia

C binge eating disorder

D obsessive-compulsive disorder

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