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Psychological Assessment is a comprehensive course that introduces students to the principles, techniques, and ethical considerations involved in evaluating individual psychological functioning. The course covers a range of assessment tools, including standardized tests, interviews, observations, and self-report measures used to assess cognitive abilities, personality traits, emotional functioning, and psychopathology. Students will learn about test construction, reliability, validity, and interpretation of assessment results, as well as how to integrate findings into coherent reports. Emphasis is placed on cultural competence, legal standards, and the appropriate use of psychological instruments in various settings such as clinical, educational, and organizational environments.
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Clinical Psychology Science Practice and Culture 4th Edition by Andrew M. (Mark) Pomerantz
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Chapter 1: Clinical Psychology: Definition and Training
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Q1) The _____is an organization whose member graduate programs emphasize and promote scientific,research-based clinical psychology as the legitimate form of clinical psychology.
A)Academy of Psychological Clinical Science
B)American Academy of Psychology
C)American Psychological Association
D)Association for the Advancement of Clinical Psychology
Answer: A
Q2) Demonstrating that there are many paths to the profession of clinical psychology,more than half of APA-accredited doctoral programs offer _____.
A)focus groups
B)specialty training
C)part-time study
D)online internships
Answer: B
Q3) A student applying for clinical psychology graduate programs would likely select a program adhering to the _____ model of training if he or she wished to primarily engage in research and teach in a university upon graduation.
Answer: Clinical scientist.
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Chapter 2: Evolution of Clinical Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following assessment methods was created most recently?
A)MMPI
B)Thematic Apperception Test
C)NEO-PI-R
D)Rorschach Inkblot Method
Answer: C
Q2) In 1800s Europe,mental illness was initially placed in one of two categories: _____,psychiatric symptoms,or _____,breaks from reality.
A)neuroses,psychoses
B)psychoses,neuroses
C)exogenous disorders,endogenous disorders
D)endogenous disorders,exogenous disorders
Answer: A
Q3) What population and what problems were addressed in the first psychological clinic?
Answer: School children;problems in the school setting related to learning or behavior
Q4) David Wechsler is most famous for creating _____.
Answer: an intelligence test designed specifically for adults or the Wechsler-Bellevue test
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Chapter 3: Current Controversies in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT true of prescription privileges for clinical psychologists?
A)Advocates for prescription privileges for clinical psychologists have made the argument that other nonphysicians have been granted prescription privileges.
B)The American Society for the Advancement of Pharmacotherapy was created,in part,to promote prescription privileges for psychologists.
C)Psychopharmacology training programs are available for psychologists in the U.S.military.
D)Missouri,New Mexico,and Alabama currently allow appropriately trained clinical psychologists to prescribe.
Answer: D
Q2) List two applications of technology in clinical psychology.
Answer: Videoconferencing,e-mail,text,interactive Internet sites,online psychotherapy programs,virtual reality,computer-based self-instructional programs,and handheld devices to monitor and interact with clients.
Q3) _____ stated (incorrectly)that psychotherapy does not work.
Answer: Hans Eysenck
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Chapter 4: Cultural Issues in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) Authors such as Pedersen (1990,1999,and 2008)have labeled _____ as the "fourth force" in the history of psychology.
A)multiculturalism
B)humanism
C)the prescription privileges movement
D)behaviorism
Q2) _____ is the term used to describe the variability of members within a cultural group.
Q3) Psychology of Religion,the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity,and the Society for the Psychology of Women are examples of A)APA divisions dedicated to cultural issues.
B)organizations that offer graduate certificates in gender and religious studies.
C)for-profit societies that are under investigation by the Better Business Bureau. D)online forums for discussion of multicultural topics.
Q4) _____ is when an individual entering a new culture adopts much of the new culture and retains much of his or her original culture.
Q5) Briefly describe the three levels of the tripartite model of personal identity.
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Chapter 5: Ethical Issues in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT among the Ethical Principles listed in the most recent edition of the APA ethical code?
A)Beneficence and Nonmaleficence
B)Integrity
C)Respect for People's Rights and Dignity
D)Fair Billing and Reporting
Q2) Briefly describe the challenges related to confidentiality when the psychotherapy client is a child or adolescent,as well as suggestions for resolving these challenges.
Q3) Many state licensing boards have _____ regulations,which are consistent with the APA code of ethic's mandate that psychologists develop and maintain their competence.
A)cultural competence
B)seminar attendance
C)continuing education
D)burnout
Q4) Explain the major differences between the APA Code of Ethics' General Principles and Ethical Standards.
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Chapter 6: Conducting Research in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) The growing popularity of Amazon Mechanical Turk,or MTurk,is an example of
A)the implementation of technology in the delivery of online psychotherapy services.
B)a shopping platform that sells self-help and other books useful for therapy patients.
C)the use of technology in clinical psychology research.
D)an Internet-based intervention for social anxiety disorder.
Q2) Compared to effectiveness studies,efficacy studies of psychotherapy outcome generally have
A)greater internal validity.
B)greater external validity.
C)little or no criteria for who is allowed to participate.
D)significant funding from the American Counseling Association.
Q3) The ABAB design is an example of a(n)_____.
A)case study
B)analogue design
C)between-groups design
D)meta-analysis
Q4) What is a meta-analysis?
Q5) What are two main areas in which clinical psychologists conduct research?
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Chapter 7: Diagnosis and Classification Issues: DSM-5 and More
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Q1) DSM-5 was created by
A)soliciting and summarizing public opinion on which disorders in DSM-IV should be eliminated.
B)prominent researchers who were members of a Task Force and Work Groups.
C)the American Counseling Association.
D)the same organization that publishes the International Classification of Diseases.
Q2) DSM-I and DSM-II
A)were empirically based.
B)reflected a psychoanalytic orientation.
C)included lists of specific symptoms or criteria for each disorder.
D)offered significant generalizability and clinical utility.
Q3) The first edition of the DSM was published in _____.
A)1914
B)1930
C)1952
D)1986
Q4) List two of the new mental disorders introduced in DSM-5.
Q5) The _____ approach to diagnosis examines where on a continuum a client's symptoms fall.
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Chapter 8: The Clinical Interview
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Q1) _____ is the extent to which an assessment technique correlates with other techniques that measure the same thing.
A)Reliability
B)Clinical utility
C)Convergent validity
D)Discriminant validity
Q2) Interviewers who use a _____ style of interviewing get exactly the information they need by asking clients specifically for it.
A)directive
B)nondirective
C)rapport-building
D)evidence-based
Q3) An element common to all kinds of psychological assessment is _____,which may take the form of a face-to-face meeting or written report.
A)coaching
B)feedback
C)clinical utility
D)validity
Q4) Describe the difference between paraphrasing and reflection of feeling.
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Chapter 9: Intellectual and Neuropsychological Assessment
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Q1) The three-stratum theory of intelligence is a contemporary theory that proposes a single,overall ability that contains eight broad factors,each of which contain many more specific abilities.This theory was proposed by _____.
A)Charles Spearman
B)Louis Thurstone
C)John Carroll
D)James Cattell
Q2) The WAIS is an appropriate test for a client who is _____ years old.
A)72
B)4
C)10
D)14
Q3) When the Wechsler intelligence test scores are interpreted,which of the following best represents the sequence in which particular scores should be considered?
A)Full-scale IQ score,index scores,subtest scores
B)Subtest scores,index scores,full-scale IQ score
C)Index scores,full-scale IQ score,subtest scores
D)Full-scale IQ score,subtest scores,index scores
Q4) Describe the Wechsler Memory Scale-Fourth Edition.
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Chapter 10: Personality Assessment and Behavioral Assessment
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Q1) What are the five personality traits measured by the NEO-Personality Inventory?
Q2) _____ created a comprehensive scoring system for the Rorschach Inkblot Method.
A)Herman Rorschach
B)John Exner
C)Aaron Beck
D)Theodore Millon
Q3) How does behavioral assessment differ from the traditional approach personality assessment approach?
Q4) The MMPI-A is an
A)alternate form of the MMPI-2 intended for adults who have previously taken the test.
B)auditory version of the MMPI-2 intended for individuals whose reading level falls below the demands of the test.
C)abbreviated form of the MMPI-2 with approximately half the items of the MMPI-2.
D)adolescent version of the MMPI-2 intended for clients aged 14-18 years.
Q5) Briefly contrast the different emphases (in terms of aspects of personality)of the MMPI-2,MCMI-IV,NEO-PI-R,and CPI.
Q6) Why was the MMPI revised,resulting in the MMPI-2?
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Chapter 11: General Issues in Psychotherapy
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Q1) A recent survey of clinical psychologists (Norcross & Karpiak,2012)found that the format of psychotherapy that was practiced by the highest percentage of clinical psychologists was _____.
A)marital/couples
B)individual
C)family
D)group
Q2) The tripartite model,created by Hans Strupp and colleagues,essentially suggests that
A)multiple parties may have meaningful and potentially inconsistent views of psychotherapy outcome.
B)various styles of psychotherapy are equally effective due to common factors.
C)the success of the first three sessions of psychotherapy correlates very strongly to the eventual success of psychotherapy after its completion.
D)psychotherapy yields the best results when at least three approaches are blended together into a new,integrative approach.
Q3) List and briefly explain three common factors proposed by psychotherapy outcome researchers.
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Chapter 12: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
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Q1) Freud's psychodynamic psychotherapy has been reinvented in many forms,including all of the following EXCEPT
A)Erikson's ego psychology.
B)Klein's object relations.
C)Jung's associative psychology.
D)Kohut's self-psychology.
Q2) Describe the oral and anal stages from Freud's psychosexual stages.Specifically,identify the fixation that may occur at each stage through underindulgence or overindulgence.
Q3) Which Freudian psychosexual stage is associated with the development of trust (or distrust)?
Q4) Which of the following statements about free association is NOT true?
A)It is used by psychodynamic psychotherapists as an effort to access the unconscious.
B)It involves asking clients to say whatever comes to mind.
C)It asks clients to say the first word that comes to mind after the therapist speaks a word.
D)It requires clients to not censor themselves at all.
Q5) According to psychodynamic psychotherapists,what is resistance and why is it important?
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Chapter 13: Humanistic Psychotherapy
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Q1) Who is the primary leader of the positive psychology movement?
Q2) The primary goal of humanistic psychotherapy is
A)to foster self-actualization.
B)to make the unconscious conscious.
C)rational,logical thought.
D)behavior change using operant and classical conditioning techniques.
Q3) _____ is an approach to therapy centered on the premise that each person is essentially alone in the world and that this realization can overwhelm us with anxiety.
Q4) The quality of _____ describes a match between a therapist's real and ideal selves.
A)genuineness
B)congruence
C)empathy
D)conditional worth
Q5) What is the name of the therapy that is derived from the positive psychology movement?
Q6) List the three key elements of humanistic therapy.
Q7) Explain the relationship among the humanistic concepts of real self,ideal self,self-actualization,and conditions of worth.
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Chapter 14: Behavior Therapy
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Q1) Behavioral activation is based on the simple idea that
A)the day-to-day lives of depressed people lack positive reinforcement.
B)depressed people think illogically.
C)the brains of depressed people are chemically imbalanced.
D)depressed people lack social skills.
Q2) The career of Ivan Pavlov is most closely associated with _____ therapy.
A)humanistic
B)behavior
C)cognitive
D)psychodynamic
Q3) In the early 1900s,_____ argued that the classical conditioning lessons learned from Ivan Pavlov's experiments with dogs should apply to humans also.
A)Edward Lee Thorndike
B)Sigmund Freud
C)John Watson
D)Donald Meichenbaum
Q4) Who is the creator of the law of effect?
Q5) What is a main difference between exposure therapy and systematic desensitization?
Q6) What are the five stages of behavioral consultation?
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Chapter 15: Cognitive Psychotherapy and Mindfulness-Based Therapies
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Q1) Who created rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT)?
Q2) Cognitive therapy
A)tends to be brief and unstructured.
B)has become a less prominent approach to psychotherapy in the 21 century.
C)represents a reaction against behavioral and psychodynamic approaches.
D)was established by Albert Bandura.
Q3) Cognitive therapists
A)use the terms thoughts,beliefs,and assumptions to refer to cognitions.
B)believe that psychopathology results directly from the things that happen to us.
C)acknowledge the usefulness of the psychoanalytic technique of word association.
D)attempt to "read" patients' thoughts by observing nonverbal behaviors.
Q4) Since the 1980s,the popularity of cognitive psychotherapy among clinical psychologists has _____.
A)increased
B)remained constant
C)decreased slightly
D)decreased greatly
Q5) Briefly describe and explain schema therapy.
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Chapter 16: Group and Family Therapy
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Q1) Briefly,for what is the Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS)used?
Q2) Which of the following approaches to psychotherapy has NOT been adapted for use with group therapy clients?
A)Behavioral
B)Psychodynamic
C)Cognitive
D)All of the other listed choices have been adapted for use with groups.
Q3) In group therapy,a client's experience that "we're all in the same boat" best describes the therapeutic factor labeled by Irvin Yalom as _____.
A)catharsis
B)interpersonal learning
C)imitative behavior
D)universality
Q4) Who is the leading figure in the interpersonal approach to group therapy?
Q5) What is the name of the tool used to assess families that involves drawing a family tree and labeling the relationships between the individuals on the family tree?
Q6) Compare and contrast linear causality and circular causality.
Q7) Explain Yalom's corrective recapitulation of the primary family group.
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Chapter 17: Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
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Q1) Parent training programs have been developed for _____.
A)ADHD
B)conduct disorder
C)separation anxiety
D)many disorders and problems,including those listed in the other answer choices.
Q2) When assessing a child patient,
A)a multisource,multimethod,multisetting approach is recommended.
B)a holistic approach is recommended.
C)an individual,internal,inclusive approach is recommended.
D)a psychodiagnostic approach is recommended.
Q3) Self-instructional training is a form of psychotherapy with children that derives from the _____ approach to psychotherapy.
A)psychodynamic
B)behavioral
C)cognitive
D)humanistic
Q4) How do cognitive-behavioral therapists adapt their techniques to work with children and adolescents? Give at least one specific example.
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Chapter 18: Health Psychology
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Q1) _____ represent(s)an economical and relatively quick alternative to biofeedback for pain management.
A)Relaxation training
B)Transdermal patches
C)Detoxification
D)The ABCDS system
Q2) What is the name of an organism's response when it perceives a threat and its body rapidly mobilizes energy reserves via the sympathetic nervous system and endocrine system?
Q3) _____ is currently the single greatest cause of preventable death in the United States.
A)Stress
B)Smoking
C)Obesity
D)Chronic fatigue
Q4) Chronic pain is defined as pain that lasts at least _____.
A)1 week
B)1 month
C)3 months
D)6 months
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Chapter 19: Forensic Psychology
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Q1) What case established the competency-to-stand-trial standard that is used throughout most of the United States?
Q2) Regarding the prediction of dangerousness,it is generally TRUE that
A)individuals with more extensive arrest records are more likely to be dangerous than individuals with less extensive arrest records.
B)individuals with more social support are more likely to be dangerous than individuals with less social support.
C)clinical prediction methods are more accurate than statistical prediction methods. D)past drug and alcohol abuse are relatively unimportant factors in predicting future dangerousness.
Q3) According to Sageman (2003),forensic psychologists should possess specialized assessment skills,including A)skill related to litigation.
B)neuropsychological acumen.
C)mastery of projective assessment scoring.
D)training in interpretation of the Rorschach.
Q4) What name is given to statistical prediction methods used to predict dangerous?
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