Abnormal Psychology Test Questions
Course Introduction
Abnormal Psychology introduces students to the scientific study of psychological disorders, exploring the nature, origins, and treatment of abnormal behavior. The course covers various mental health conditions, such as anxiety disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia, personality disorders, and others, examining their diagnostic criteria, risk factors, and prevalence. Students will engage with theoretical models, including biological, psychological, and sociocultural perspectives, to understand the complexities of mental illness. Through case studies and research findings, the course emphasizes critical analysis of current treatment practices, ethical considerations, and the impact of stigma on individuals and society.
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Introduction to Clinical Psychology 8th Edition by Geoffrey P. Kramer
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Chapter 1: What Is Clinical Psychology
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Q1) Managed care
A) uses business models and not just clinical judgments in making decisions about treatment.
B) often contributes to a decrease in income for practitioners.
C) has stimulated research on the efficacy of certain treatments.
D) all of the above
Answer: D
Q2) Most states require continuing education for maintaining clinical psychology licensure.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The Ethical Code of conduct for psychologists
A) is now outdated and useless for modern practitioners.
B) provides guidelines for many areas of professional practice.
C) covers only a few areas of concern to clinical psychologists.
D) is only relevant to psychologists actively involved in providing direct services to clients.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Clinical Psychologys Past and Present
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Q1) As behavioral therapists accepted the importance of human cognitive processes in determining behavior and reactions
A) behavioral and cognitive therapies became much more distinct.
B) the traditional differences between the two approaches evaporated and were replaced by new, stronger theoretical differences.
C) cognitive and behavioral therapies began to merge and become an integrated approach.
D) none of the above, most behavior therapists still do not acknowledge the importance of cognitions.
Answer: D
Q2) Carl Rogers developed a humanistic therapy he termed A) self-actualizing psychology.
B) Gestalt psychotherapy.
C) client-centered psychotherapy.
D) the actualizing tendency.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Basic Features of Clinical Assessment
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Q1) Assessment is
A) the administering of tests of intelligence and personality.
B) only performed by qualified clinical psychologists.
C) is the collection and synthesis of information to reach a judgment.
D) all of the above
Answer: C
Q2) While many clinicians believe that developing more descriptive assessments would be of benefit in both research and clinical settings, this is unlikely to happen because A) the benefit of an efficient shorthand for communicating about disorders outweighs all other considerations.
B) it would never be reliable and valid.
C) they are time consuming and therefore expensive.
D) the different theoretical approaches will probably never be able to agree on the descriptions.
Answer: C
Q3) Clinicians tend to underpredict dangerousness.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Interviewing and Observation in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) Describe the two courses that crisis interviews usually take.
Q2) Discuss the relationships between theoretical orientation of the interviewer and the likely preference for structure he or she maintains.
Q3) Self-monitoring
A) requires the client to record various events and behaviors occurring in their daily life. B) is often used by behaviorally-oriented clinicians to establish base-rates of behavior. C) may not provide accurate information about addictive behavior.
D) all of the above
Q4) An often-used technique for demonstrating the problems with eye-witness accounts is having an accomplice enter a classroom, pretend to shoot the professor, then leave.The class members are then asked to describe the "gunman." This is an example of
A) a virtual reality assessment.
B) a staged naturalistic event.
C) an unethical observational tool.
D) a role-playing test.
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Chapter 5: Testing in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) Discuss the reasons why psychological testing lost much of its appeal during the early 1970s.
Q2) What are some of the ways that testers can minimize response distortions?
Q3) When a person is given a pre-test before an intervention, and then another test after an intervention or training, and his or her results are compared to determine progress, this is called
A) standardized measurement.
B) criterion measurement.
C) ipsative measurement.
D) all of the above
Q4) Both the social desirability bias and malingering can affect or bias test results.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Kaufman describes intelligence as both
A) verbal and visual motor abilities.
B) intuitive and objective understanding.
C) higher order and basic functions.
D) the ability to solve problems and "crystallized" intelligence.
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Chapter 6: Basic Features of Clinical Interventions
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Q1) Which client variable is related to treatment outcome?
A) the match between presenting problem and treatment choice
B) the gender of the client
C) the client's openness and cooperation
D) the client's age
Q2) Which of the following is NOT likely to be taught directly in clinical training programs?
A) how to administer projective techniques
B) how to establish initial rapport with clients
C) how to monitor and regulate one's own internal states
D) effective communication skills
Q3) Mental disorders are found in all segments of U.S.society.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The theorist and therapist who deserves the most credit for our understanding of the importance of the therapeutic alliance was
A) Sigmund Freud.
B) Carl Rogers.
C) Fritz Perls.
D) Erik Erikson.
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Chapter 7: Psychodynamic and Humanistic Psychotherapies
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Q1) Discuss the interaction between the level of disturbance a client is exhibiting and the therapist's decision to use supportive or expressive approaches.
Q2) A transference neurosis occurs when the client unconsciously replicates other relationships with the therapist.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Existential therapists encourage clients to develop a sense of meaning and purpose in their lives.
A)True
B)False
Q4) By developing psychoanalysis, Freud can be considered the founder of psychotherapy as we know it today.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Emotion-focused therapy helps clients avoid feelings of vulnerability.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Discuss the dual role of reflection in person-centered therapy.
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Chapter 8: Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapies
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Q1) Cognitive and behavioral approaches have maintained their individuality in spite of attempts to link the two psychotherapeutic approaches.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following would NOT support the cognitive specificity hypothesis?
A) Persons who share certain disorders seem inclined to employ similar cognitive distortions.
B) Persons with depression often have a negative attributional style.
C) Persons prone to depression often interpret negative events as occurring because of internal, global, and stable factors.
D) Normal and abnormal behaviors are triggered by cognitive interpretation of events, rather than by the events themselves.
Q3) Behavior therapies have broadened to include the development of a range of social skills, such as making conversation and engaging in interpersonal problem solving.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe some ways that newer technologies facilitate behavioral therapies.
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Chapter 9: Alternative Modes of Clinical Intervention
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Q1) Research indicates that spirituality
A) should not be addressed in clinical psychology, since most clinicians are not theologians and there is no reason to believe it is important.
B) is not a relevant issue for most clients, and rarely comes up in therapy.
C) regularly emerges as a resilience or protective factor or asset in the risk and resilience literature.
D) is not related to quality of life issues, stress reduction, or increased well-being.
Q2) The DSMIV-TR V-codes
A) reflect the development of diagnostic categories for interpersonal conflicts as separate from individual pathologies.
B) have resulted from attempts to categorize several conditions that "may be a focus of clinical attention."
C) include parent-child relationship problems and partner relationship problems. D) all of the above
Q3) Discuss the similarities and differences between "mindfulness" and "acceptance."
Q4) Describe some of the contexts in which couples and families live, and the changes that are occurring in those contexts.
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Chapter 10: Research on Clinical Intervention
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Q1) Research conducted by Gurman and Snyder (2011) on couples therapy indicates that most couples
A) experience generally positive effects and were better off after treatment.
B) relapse to distressed states at one to four years after treatment concludes.
C) both of the above
D) neither of the above
Q2) Family therapy has proven effective for
A) improving communication patterns.
B) improving behavior of the identified client.
C) improving parental discipline techniques.
D) all of the above
Q3) Individual therapy is almost always more effective than family, couples, or group therapies.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Using the information about client variables presented in the text, describe the "best" psychotherapy client vis-à-vis treatment outcome.
Q5) Explain some of the reasons why there is a "great divide" between many empirical researchers and clinicians.
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Chapter 11: Clinical Child Psychology
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Q1) When prevalence estimates for CD and ODD are combined, ___________of children can be considered to have one of these disruptive disorders.
A) 2% to 10% of both boys and girls
B) 2% to 16% of girls and 4% to 16% of boys
C) 4% to 25% of girls and boys
D) 4% to 25% of girls or 4% to 32% of boys
Q2) Children display resilience when they show positive outcomes even when exposed to one or more risk factors.
A)True
B)False
Q3) One main reason for the development of clinical child psychology is the finding that A) traditional adult-oriented approaches to assessment and intervention may have limited applicability for childhood disorders.
B) there is an overabundance of adult therapists.
C) adult outcome research is directly applicable to childhood disorders.
D) all of the above
Q4) How are risk factors, protective factors, and resilience related?
Q5) Why do some clinicians have some concerns with structured interviews?
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Chapter 12: Health Psychology
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Q1) Discuss the relationship that emotional aspects of patient-physician communications might have with treatment adherence.
Q2) Explain the relationship between stress and illness.
Q3) Coping refers to cognitive, emotional, and behavior capacities that help people deal with stressors.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Anything that increases the likelihood of a person developing an illness or disorder is called a
A) risk factor.
B) resilience asset.
C) psychological stressor.
D) protective agent.
Q5) Nearly half of all deaths in the United States can be attributed to risky behaviors, such as smoking, unhealthy eating, sedentary lifestyles, and alcohol abuse.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Describe the three stages to Selye's general adaptation syndrome.
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Chapter 13: Clinical Neuopsychology
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Q1) Describe the various ways brain lateralization is studied.
Q2) As illustrated by the famous case of Phineas P.Gage, the frontal lobes of the brain
A) are essential for speech production.
B) are of only limited importance, and damage to them causes only limited impairment.
C) are the location of intelligence.
D) are profoundly implicated in personality, and social and emotional functioning.
Q3) Describe the types of behavior that might be manifested by an individual with severe frontal lobe damage.
Q4) In most right-handed people, the left hemisphere is specialized A) to process negative emotions.
B) to analyze visual stimuli.
C) for nonverbal analysis of information.
D) for language reception and expression.
Q5) Blindness is the most common problem associated with parietal lobe dysfunction.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Is the right hemisphere really the inferior hemisphere? Why or why not?
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Chapter 14: Forensic Psychology
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Q1) What is the most common parenting recommendation made by experts in custody cases?
A) limited joint custody.
B) joint custody with parents splitting physical custody 50%/50%.
C) sole physical and legal custody with the mother.
D) flexible custody arrangements where parents decide weekly what will be done with the children.
Q2) Which of the following is a change that has been made to the insanity defense in the last 20 years?
A) Several states have abolished the insanity defense altogether.
B) Several states have added the Guilty but Mentally Ill (GBMI) verdict.
C) neither of the above
D) both of the above
Q3) Which of the following is likely to be found not competent to stand trial?
A) a person with moderate mental retardation
B) a person with depression
C) a person who presents evidence of traumatic abuse as a child
D) a person who has schizophrenia and has never received treatment
Q4) Explain the McNaughton rule, and the impact it has had on present day forensic psychology.
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Chapter 15: Professional Issues in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) With equivalent training and experience, psychologists in independent practice probably
A) earn significantly more than academic psychologists.
B) earn significantly more than psychologists employed by the VA
C) earn significantly more than psychologists employed in university student counseling centers.
D) all of the above
Q2) The Multlicultural Guidelines can be summed up by which construct?
A) openness to the other
B) reliance on single theoretical approaches
C) only working with clients similar to oneself culturally and socially
D) all of the above
Q3) What do the authors of the text believe is the single most important goal of training clinicians?
A) training them to perform and publish research on clinical topics making sure they are clinically competent
B) teaching them to choose and evaluate services in light of research evidence
C) making sure they can teach in the field, so they can disseminate information widely-
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Chapter 16: Getting Into Graduate School in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) Discuss the reasons why undergraduates who plan to apply to clinical psychology programs should participate in research.
Q2) If a student's academic or research credentials are not solid, obtaining a master's level degree in a clinical area might be a good idea because A) managed care and other factors are affecting licensure laws and may allow more master's level psychotherapists to practice independently.
B) it will be very helpful in getting a student into a PhD program in clinical psychology.
C) selection committees will only look at graduate grades when the student does apply to a doctoral level program.
D) all of the above
Q3) The PhD is considered the terminal degree in psychology. A)True
B)False
Q4) The GPA is considered an excellent indicator of the amount of effort a student expended in college.
A)True
B)False
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