Questions and CORRECT Answers
Ellen Berscheid's research into relationships focuses on:
1. how features of a relationship's exterior influences relationship satisfaction.
• 2. the impact a relationship can have on the physical and social environment.
• 3. how early parental relationships shape marital and other intimate relationships.
• 4. the importance of a strong friendship bond in successful marriages. - CORRECT
ANSWER - 1. how features of a relationship's exterior influences relationship satisfaction.
The patient's right to keep therapy information from being disclosed during a court proceeding is
termed:
• 1. confidentiality.
• 2. legal privilege.
• 3. clinical privilege.
• 4. privacy. - CORRECT ANSWER - 2. legal privilege.
According to family therapist Nancy Boyd-Franklin, therapists working with African American
families should:
• 1. conceptualize family problems as stemming from the socio-political climate of racism, rather
than from the psychopathology of individual members.
• 2. address issues of acculturation.
• 3. rebalance hierarchies that are too matriarchal.
• 4. consider meetings outside of the traditional office setting to include members of clients'
support systems. - CORRECT ANSWER - 4. consider meetings outside of the traditional
office setting to include members of clients' support systems.
,According to Erikson, successful negotiation of the psychosocial stage of trust versus mistrust,
will result in which of the following strengths?
• 1. Hope.
• 2. Love.
• 3. Competence.
• 4. Wisdom - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Hope.
Ms. Ann Examinee receives a score of 82 on a math test. If the standard error of measurement for
the test is 5, we can be 95% confident that her true score falls between:
• 1. 77 and 87.
• 2. 72 and 92.
• 3. 79.5 and 84.5.
• 4. 67 and 97. - CORRECT ANSWER - 2. 72 and 92.
Anosagnosia refers to:
• 1. the inability to recognize objects.
• 2. the inability to recognize faces.
• 3. difficulty identifying visual patterns.
• 4. lack of awareness of one's deficits. - CORRECT ANSWER - 4. lack of awareness of
one's deficits.
Which type of employees would be most likely to have a low turnover rate?
• 1. Highly productive male workers.
• 2. Female workers on an assembly line.
• 3. Poorly paid under-40 tenured professors.
, • 4. Salespersons with low job satisfaction. - CORRECT ANSWER - 3. Poorly paid under-
40 tenured professors.
Which of the following best reflects Piaget's concept of accommodation?
• 1. Putting books on a shelf.
• 2. Adding a second floor to an existing home.
• 3. Developing abstract reasoning skills.
• 4. Sorting toys by color. - CORRECT ANSWER - Adding a second floor to an existing
home.
According to Prochaska and DiClemente's Stages of Change Model, a patient is most likely to
experience ambivalence about change during the stage of:
• 1. pre-contemplation.
• 2. contemplation
• 3. preparation.
• 4. action. - CORRECT ANSWER - 2. contemplation
The most likely outcome of fetal malnutrition is:
• 1. anoxia.
• 2. reduced axonal and dendritic growth.
• 3. a reduction in the number of neurons.
• 4. difficult to determine since the effects of fetal malnutrition may be compensated for by other
factors later in development. - CORRECT ANSWER - 3. a reduction in the number of
neurons.
All of the following reflect research findings on the effects of overcrowding except: