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Psychology An
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5 Edition By David H.
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Chapter 3
Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
a. a guide for training psychology students in assessment techniques
,b. a textbook about the etiology of psychological disorders
c. a classification system for abnormal behaviour
d. an encyclopedia of treatment approaches for psychological disorders
2. Which of the following is a part of the intellectual functioning component of a mental status
exam?
a. noting a person’s vocabulary
b. noting the appropriateness of a person’s attire
c. noting a person’s mood
d. noting the content of what a person is saying
3. What is the primary basis for a prognosis?
a. information about the course of the disorder in other individuals
b. clinical experience
c. the treatment options available to the patient
d. the client’s desire to reform
4. Suppose an individual taking the MMPI falsifies answers in order to look good. On which scale
will he or she most likely have a high score?
a. Defensiveness (K)
b. Infrequency (F)
c. Inconsistency (I)
d. Lie (L)
, 5. What kind of test is the Stanford-Binet test?
a. a personality test
b. a projective test
c. an intelligence test
d. a mental status test
6. What does the classical categorical approach to diagnosis assume about each person with a
particular disorder?
a. He or she will experience very few of the same symptoms.
b. He or she will respond to the same treatments equally.
c. He or she will be helped by recognizing the cause of the disorder.
d. He or she will experience the same symptoms with little or no variation.
7. If an assessment measures what it is intended to measure it is said to be considered to be
which of the following?
a. valid
b. reliable
c. standardized
d. clinical
8. A clinician asks a child to sit at a desk in a simulated classroom situation to complete a
difficult task. The clinician is using this technique to discover the reasons the child has been
engaging in self-hitting (self-injurious) behaviour. In behavioural assessment terms, what type of
behaviour has the self-hitting been identified as?
a. measurable behaviour
b. target behaviour
Psychology An
Integrative Approach
5 Edition By David H.
th
Barlow.
, Abnormal Psychology An Integrative Approach 5th
Edition By David H. Barlow – Test Bank
If face any problem or Further information contact us At
Description
INSTANT DOWNLOAD WITH ANSWERS
Abnormal Psychology An Integrative Approach 5th Edition by David H. Barlow – Test Bank
SAMPLE TEST
Chapter 3
Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
a. a guide for training psychology students in assessment techniques
,b. a textbook about the etiology of psychological disorders
c. a classification system for abnormal behaviour
d. an encyclopedia of treatment approaches for psychological disorders
2. Which of the following is a part of the intellectual functioning component of a mental status
exam?
a. noting a person’s vocabulary
b. noting the appropriateness of a person’s attire
c. noting a person’s mood
d. noting the content of what a person is saying
3. What is the primary basis for a prognosis?
a. information about the course of the disorder in other individuals
b. clinical experience
c. the treatment options available to the patient
d. the client’s desire to reform
4. Suppose an individual taking the MMPI falsifies answers in order to look good. On which scale
will he or she most likely have a high score?
a. Defensiveness (K)
b. Infrequency (F)
c. Inconsistency (I)
d. Lie (L)
, 5. What kind of test is the Stanford-Binet test?
a. a personality test
b. a projective test
c. an intelligence test
d. a mental status test
6. What does the classical categorical approach to diagnosis assume about each person with a
particular disorder?
a. He or she will experience very few of the same symptoms.
b. He or she will respond to the same treatments equally.
c. He or she will be helped by recognizing the cause of the disorder.
d. He or she will experience the same symptoms with little or no variation.
7. If an assessment measures what it is intended to measure it is said to be considered to be
which of the following?
a. valid
b. reliable
c. standardized
d. clinical
8. A clinician asks a child to sit at a desk in a simulated classroom situation to complete a
difficult task. The clinician is using this technique to discover the reasons the child has been
engaging in self-hitting (self-injurious) behaviour. In behavioural assessment terms, what type of
behaviour has the self-hitting been identified as?
a. measurable behaviour
b. target behaviour
