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Course Introduction
Abnormal Psychology explores the nature, causes, and treatment of psychological disorders. The course examines patterns of behavior that deviate from societal norms, including mood, anxiety, psychotic, personality, and developmental disorders. Students will learn to apply diagnostic criteria, understand the biopsychosocial model of mental illness, and evaluate various therapeutic approaches. Emphasis is placed on the historical and cultural perspectives of abnormal behavior, ethical considerations, and the impact of mental disorders on individuals and society. Through case studies, research analysis, and discussion, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of the complexities associated with abnormal psychological functioning.
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Clinical Psychology Science Practice and Culture 3rd Edition by Andrew M. (Mark) Pomerantz
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Chapter 1: Clinical Psychology: Definition and Training
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Q1) Compared to PhD programs,PsyD programs tend to
A) place less emphasis on research-related aspects of training and more emphasis on clinically relevant aspects of training.
B) accept and enroll a much smaller percentage and number of applicants.
C) offer significantly more funding to enrolled students.
D) all of the above
Answer: A
Q2) _____ authorizes a psychologist to practice independently.
A) Successful completion of the predoctoral internship
B) Successful completion of the postdoctoral internship
C) Successful completion of all graduate courses in an APA-approved graduate program
D) Licensure
Answer: D
Q3) The scientist-practitioner model of graduate training is also known as the _____ model.
Answer: Boulder
Q4) The practitioner-scholar model of graduate training is also known as the _____ model.
Answer: Vail
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Chapter 2: Evolution of Clinical Psychology
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Q1) What historical event elevated psychotherapy to become one of the most common activities of clinical psychologists?
Answer: World War II
Q2) Which of the following statements is true?
A) Each edition of the DSM has included fewer pages and diagnoses than the previous edition.
B) Specific diagnostic criteria have been a characteristic of the DSM since its first edition. C) all of the above
D) none of the above
Answer: D
Q3) David Wechsler created
A) an inkblot test of personality.
B) a popular objective questionnaire measuring symptoms of depression.
C) a test of intelligence.
D) the MMPI.
Answer: C
Q4) Who is considered the "father of descriptive psychiatry"?
Answer: Emil Kraepelin
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Chapter 3: Current Controversies in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) Advocates for prescription privileges for clinical psychologists have often made the argument that other nonphysicians such as _____ have already been granted some prescription privileges.
A) dentists
B) advance practice nurses
C) podiatrists
D) all of the above
Answer: D
Q2) How can the way a client pays (out of pocket vs.managed care/health insurance)influence diagnosis?
Answer: Since most managed care/health insurance companies require a diagnosis for treatment,the likelihood of receiving a diagnosis is greater for clients paying that way versus identical clients paying out of pocket.This finding is true for a wide range of symptoms (e.g.,depression,anxiety,inattention/hyperactivity,social phobia)and for clients whose symptoms are clearly below diagnosable levels.Also,the particular diagnosis chosen may differ depending on payment method.
Q3) The first list of empirically validated treatments was published in _____.
Answer: 1995
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Chapter 4: Cultural Issues in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) Explain the difference between the four different acculturation strategies: assimilation,separation,marginalization,and integration.
Q2) What are the three levels of the tripartite model of personal identity?
Q3) _____ is the acculturation strategy in which the individual adopts much of the new culture and abandons much of the original culture.
A) Assimilation
B) Separation
C) Marginalization
D) Integration
Q4) Name two principles or standards from the APA's (2002)Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct that address multiculturalism.
Q5) From 1990 to 2000,
A) the Asian American/Pacific Islander population in the U.S. decreased slightly.
B) the Latino/Latina/Hispanic population in the U.S. grew by about 50%.
C) all of the above
D) none of the above
Q6) 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 true regarding confidentiality and child abuse?
A) An ethical clinical psychologist should never break a child client's confidentiality to report child abuse.
B) Less than half of the states in the U.S. have laws requiring mental health professionals to break confidentiality to report known or suspected child abuse.
C) all of the above
D) none of the above
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) The process of _____ includes informing patients as early as is feasible in the therapeutic relationship about the nature and anticipated course of therapy,fees,involvement of third parties,and limits of confidentiality.
Q4) If a clinical psychologist were to know someone professionally as a patient and in another way,such as hiring the individual to perform maintenance on the psychologist's home,the psychologist would be engaging in a(n)_____.
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Chapter 6: Conducting Research in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) _____ variables are those variables in an experiment that are manipulated by the experimenter.
A) Internal
B) External
C) Independent
D) Dependent
Q2) As reported in the text,what research methods are used to measure psychotherapy outcome?
A) questionnaires
B) direct observation
C) interviews
D) all of the above
Q3) _____ designs examine changes in a participant or group across time,often over many years.
A) Cross-sectional
B) ABAB
C) Analog
D) Longitudinal
Q4) A study examining a psychotherapy's success in an actual clinical setting is measuring the therapy's _____.
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Chapter 7: Diagnosis and Classification Issues
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Q1) Proposed changes to DSM-IV that will appear in DSM-5 include
A) the inclusion of premenstrual dysphoric disorder and binge eating disorder as official diagnoses.
B) a lower threshold for binging and purging frequency in bulimia nervosa.
C) elimination of some disorders, including some types of personality disorders.
D) all of the above
Q2) The first edition of the DSM contained only three broad categories:
A) psychoses, neuroses, and character disorders.
B) internalizing, externalizing, and mediating disorders.
C) primary, secondary, and tertiary disorders.
D) Freudian, Jungian, and undifferentiated disorders.
Q3) Which edition of the DSM was the first to include culture-bound syndromes?
Q4) DSM-III was published in _____.
A) 1952
B) 1968
C) 1980
D) 1994
Q5) List one proposed change to the current DSM that is likely to appear in DSM-5.
Q6) What is harmful dysfunction theory?
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Q7) Compare and contrast the categorical and dimensional approaches to diagnosis.
Chapter 8: The Clinical Interview
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Q1) Briefly explain some gender-based differences in communication styles that are important for a clinical interviewer to appreciate.
Q2) Which of the following can enhance rapport in a clinical interview?
A) efforts by the interviewer to put the client at ease, especially at the beginning of the interview
B) acknowledgment by the interviewer that the clinical interview is a unique, unusual situation
C) efforts by the interviewer to notice how the client uses language, and then following the client's lead
D) all of the above
Q3) _____ is the extent to which an assessment technique measures what it claims to measure.
A) Validity
B) Test-retest reliability
C) Clinical utility
D) Interrater reliability
Q4) The _____ style of interviewing gets exactly the information needed by the interviewer by asking the client specific questions.
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Chapter 9: Intellectual and Neuropsychological Assessment
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Q1) Aside from the Wechsler series of intelligence tests,what is the other major intelligence test?
Q2) The Wechsler tests feature _____ factors,each of which yields an index score.The SB5 features _____ factors.
A) 4; 4
B) 4; 5
C) 5; 4
D) 5; 5
Q3) _____ is what a person can accomplish,while _____ is what a person has accomplished.
A) Intelligence; achievement
B) Achievement; intelligence
C) Scholastics; performance
D) Performance; scholastics
Q4) Compare and contrast the theories of intelligence proposed by Charles Spearman and Louis Thurstone.
Q5) What is the most commonly used neuropsychological screening measure among clinical psychologists?
Q6) What is the difference between intelligence and achievement?
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Chapter 10: Personality Assessment and Behavioral Assessment
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Q1) _____ is a test-construction method that involves identifying distinct groups of people,asking all of them to respond to the same test items,and comparing responses between the groups.
A) Empirical criterion keying
B) Logarithmic modeling
C) Factor analysis
D) Comparative group coding
Q2) Which of the following is not one of the "Big Five" personality traits measured by the NEO-PI-R?
A) neuroticism
B) conscientiousness
C) openness
D) eclecticism
Q3) The practice of evidence-based assessment is characterized by the selection of tests
A) with sufficient normative data, especially regarding diverse clients.
B) with strong reliability and validity.
C) all of the above
D) none of the above
Q4) What are the five personality traits measured by the NEO-PI-R?
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Chapter 11: General Issues in Psychotherapy
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Q1) Briefly compare and contrast eclectic and integrative approaches to psychotherapy.
Q2) According to surveys of clinical psychologists since 1960,the humanistic orientation to psychotherapy
A) was the most commonly endorsed orientation in the 1970s. B) was the most commonly endorsed orientation in the 1990s. C) all of the above D) none of the above
Q3) The "dodo bird verdict" refers to the finding that A) behavioral psychotherapy is more beneficial than cognitive psychotherapy. B) psychodynamic psychotherapy is more beneficial than humanistic psychotherapy. C) behavioral psychotherapy is more beneficial than all other forms of psychotherapy. D) various forms of psychotherapy are about equally beneficial
Q4) List and briefly describe each of the stages in Norcross,Krebs,and Prochaska's (2011)stages of change model.
Q5) List and briefly explain three common factors proposed by psychotherapy outcome researchers.
Q6) What is the most common format of psychotherapy practiced by clinical psychologists?
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Chapter 12: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
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Q1) When a patient is asked to engage in _____,the patient's task is to verbalize any thought that comes to mind,no matter how nonsensical,inappropriate,illogical,or unimportant it may seem.
A) word association
B) fixation
C) projection
D) free association
Q2) Which of the following lists Freud's psychosexual stages in the correct order?
A) oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
B) genital, oral, phallic, anal, latency
C) anal, oral, phallic, genital, latency
D) latency, oral, anal, genital, phallic
Q3) Relative to its prominence in the early and mid-1900s,psychodynamic psychotherapy is currently
A) more prominent.
B) less prominent.
C) equally prominent.
D) more prominent for adult therapists and less prominent for child therapists.
Q4) Which psychosexual stage is associated with the development of trust (or distrust)?
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Chapter 13: Humanistic Psychotherapy
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Q1) List the three key elements of humanistic therapy.
Q2) Name three of the six central principles of motivational interviewing.
Q3) Explain the relationship among the humanistic concepts of real self,ideal self,self-actualization,and conditions of worth.
Q4) According to Carl Rogers,the three essential therapeutic conditions were _____ to psychotherapy to be successful with any client.
A) necessary
B) sufficient
C) all of the above
D) none of the above
Q5) Which of the following approaches to psychotherapy places the strongest emphasis on empathy provided by the therapist?
A) cognitive
B) psychoanalytic
C) humanistic
D) behavioral
Q6) Briefly describe positive psychology.What does it emphasize? What is the name of the therapy derived from positive psychology?
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Chapter 14: Behavioral Psychotherapy
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Q1) _____ is most closely associated with classical conditioning,while _____ is most closely associated with operant conditioning.
A) Thorndike; Skinner
B) Watson; Pavlov
C) Pavlov; Skinner
D) Thorndike; Watson
Q2) _____ is defined as any consequence that makes a behavior less likely to occur in the future.
A) Reinforcement
B) Exposure
C) Implosion
D) none of the above
Q3) _____ refers to the removal of an expected reinforcement that results in a decrease in the frequency of the behavior.
Q4) The creation of an anxiety hierarchy is a core feature of _____.
A) token economies
B) exposure therapy
C) contingency management
D) all of the above
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Chapter 15: Cognitive Psychotherapy
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Q1) Define the common thought distortion known as mind reading,and offer a fictional example that a client might bring to a clinical psychologist.
Q2) Who created dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)?
Q3) Cognitive psychotherapy
A) has not yet been found efficacious in the treatment of any specific psychological disorders.
B) emphasizes objective measures of psychotherapy outcome to a greater extent than psychodynamic psychotherapy.
C) all of the above
D) none of the above
Q4) Whose name is most prominently associated with the form of cognitive therapy that uses Dysfunctional Thought Records?
Q5) According to Ellis' ABCDE model,"D" represents
A) a discussion of the feelings resulting from the client's irrational thoughts.
B) the drive with which the irrational thought is associated.
C) the domain of the client's life negatively influenced by the irrational thought.
D) a dispute of the client's irrational thoughts.
Q6) What are the five components of the ABCDE model?
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Chapter 16: Group and Family Therapy
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Q1) Which of the following is true regarding group therapy?
A) Extra-group socializing is encouraged by most group therapists.
B) Cotherapists must share identical therapy orientation in order to be effective.
C) all of the above
D) none of the above
Q2) Two parents in conflict with one another each make efforts to recruit their child to their side in order to support their position in the conflict.According to family therapists,this exemplifies _____.
A) an undifferentiated ego mass
B) triangulation
C) extra-group socializing
D) linear causality
Q3) The Conflict Tactics Scale
A) is a projective personality test for children.
B) is a neuropsychological screen.
C) includes questions about how individuals behave when disagreements arise.
D) none of the above
Q4) Briefly,for what is the Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS)used?
Q5) 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) The key criterion for the diagnosis of a learning disability is
A) intelligence that is significantly below average.
B) achievement in a particular academic area that is significantly below average.
C) all of the above
D) none of the above
Q2) Clinical child psychologists who conduct _____ believe that a child's play communicates important processes occurring within the child's mind of which the child may be unaware.
A) self-instructional training
B) psychodynamic play therapy
C) humanistic play therapy
D) parent training
Q3) _____ is a form of therapy with children in which clients learn to "talk themselves through" situations in which their behavior might be problematic.
A) Narrative therapy
B) Self-instructional training
C) Solution-focused therapy
D) Humanistic play therapy
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Chapter 18: Health Psychology
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Q1) _____ is an interdisciplinary field interested in the ways in which our minds influence our bodies.
Q2) The diseases that cause the greatest danger for death within our current society
A) include tuberculosis and pneumonia.
B) feature behavioral components.
C) all of the above
D) none of the above
Q3) _____ represent(s)an economical and relatively quick alternative to biofeedback for pain management.
A) Relaxation training
B) Transdermal patches
C) Detoxification
D) none of the above
Q4) _____ examine the ways in which psychological processes influence physical well-being and illness.
A) Forensic psychologists
B) Health psychologists
C) Counseling psychologists
D) Social workers
Q5) Describe the new health psychology technique known as values affirmation.
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Chapter 19: Forensic Psychology
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Q1) What are at least two ways in which forensic psychologists must be sensitive to their patients' varying abilities,knowledge,and beliefs stemming from diverse cultural backgrounds? Describe each.
Q2) How do clinical prediction methods of predicting dangerousness differ from actuarial prediction methods of predicting dangerousness?
Q3) In child custody evaluations,the role of the _____ is to make sure that the rights of the child are protected.
A) forensic psychologist
B) guardian ad litem
C) voir dire
D) none of the above
Q4) _____ was the first legal standard for the insanity defense in the history of the American legal system.
A) The M'Naghten test
B) Voir dire
C) The Munsterberg criteria
D) The Daubet standards
Q5) What is the current standard for the admissibility of expert testimony as evidence in the U.S.?
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