Clinical Psychology
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Course Introduction
Clinical Psychology explores the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders. The course examines core psychological theories, therapeutic techniques, and evidence-based practices used by clinical psychologists in various settings. Topics include psychopathology, psychological testing, intervention strategies, and ethical considerations in clinical work. Case studies and real-world examples are utilized to familiarize students with the complexities of client care, the integration of science and practice, and the challenges of working with diverse populations.
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Theories of Personality 10th Edition by Richard M. Ryckman
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Chapter 1: Studying Personality: Assessment, research, and Theory
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Q1) Case study data collected with the clinical method A) is more objective. B) reveals the truth about the person. C) is more precise than correlation methods. D) is more subjective.
Answer: D
Q2) Watson argued that psychology must be studied by our senses,while Freud believed we should study the unconscious mind.Give two real-life examples of the importance of how we study with our senses as in Watson's viewpoint,and two examples in real-life of why we need to focus on the unconscious.
Answer: Real-life examples for Watson may include that our senses are observable,conscious,and objectively measured. Freud's study of the unconscious is not scientifically provable,relies on insight of the client and the therapists as the interpreter,and is not easily measured.
Q3) The MMPI is not appropriate for people with limited reading skills.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Sigmund Freud: Psychoanalysis
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Q1) The ego-ideal consists of good,correct behaviors for which children have been praised.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) According to Freud,the preconscious resides within A) the id.
B) the ego.
C) the superego.
D) both the id and the superego.
Answer: B
Q3) A person who is rigid,compulsively neat,obstinate,and overly conscientious as an adult,may have started reacting this way in the anal stage of psychosexual development.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Carl Jung: Analytical Psychology
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Q1) For Jung,complexes may be
A) only in the conscious.
B) only in the unconscious.
C) stored in the collective unconscious only.
D) both in the conscious and the unconscious.
Answer: D
Q2) According to Jung,both the animus and the anima are active and must be expressed.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Formal training in Jungian analysis is
A) not readily available.
B) available only for those who have accepted Jung's approaches to personality.
C) readily available in training institutes in major cities around the world.
D) not taught anymore in the United States - only in Europe.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Alfred Adler: Individual Psychology
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Q1) For Adler,inferiority
A) is rooted in sexuality.
B) is a function of the environment.
C) primarily starts in adolescence.
D) is an instinct.
Q2) Adler proposed the concept of social interest to define A) compensation.
B) style of life.
C) innate potential to cooperate with others to achieve personal and societal goals.
D) a dominant or ruling attitude.
Q3) The child most likely to develop at a remarkably fast rate is the A) only child.
B) first-born.
C) youngest child.
D) second-born.
Q4) Adler described his notion of the superiority complex as an exaggerated opinion of one's abilities and accomplishments.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Karen Horney: Neurotic Needs and Trends
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Q1) Horney believed that neuroses and conflicts are avoided when children are raised with
A) love, acceptance, and trust.
B) security, independence and discipline.
C) two parents, rather than with just one parent.
D) the driving forces of each parent's personalities reinforcing the idealized self-image of the child.
Q2) The person who is excessively dependent on others represents the ____ personality type.
A) aggressive
B) compliant
C) detached
D) withdrawing
Q3) Horney's ten neurotic needs are irrational solutions to one's problems.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Karen Horney was never married and had no children.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Erik Erikson: Identity Theory
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Q1) According to Erikson,in the latency stage of psychosocial development the child's growing powers of deductive reasoning and the ability to play by rules lead to the deliberate refinement of the skills displayed in building things.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Erikson's theory has been criticized because it is
A) irrelevant to the lives of average persons.
B) unable to generate research.
C) incomplete in its description of the last stage of maturity.
D) of more value in the laboratory than the clinic.
Q3) In his study of play constructions,Erikson believed he saw A) the symbolic expression of the genitals for both sexes.
B) proof of his first three developmental stages.
C) how sex roles were changing in modern culture.
D) that play of girls was very similar to the play of boys.
Q4) The locomotor-genital conflict (age 3-5)involves
A) initiative versus guilt.
B) identity versus role confusion.
C) autonomy versus doubt and shame.
D) trust versus mistrust.
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Chapter 7: Gordon Allport: Motivation and Personality
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Q1) Allport believed that infants
A) develop in a series of definite steps.
B) do not have the capacity to reduce tension.
C) have little "personality."
D) have functionally autonomous motives.
Q2) What did Allport believe was the biggest difference between normal and abnormal people?
A) The abnormal person functions at an infantile level.
B) The study of the abnormal person is more important.
C) Personality, in general, is not specific or particular to the individual.
D) There are no differences between normal and abnormal people.
Q3) According to Allport,we acquire new motives through
A) organizing the energy level.
B) resolving an underlying conflict.
C) helping the ego control the id.
D) examining our undesirable motives.
Q4) Allport believed psychoanalysis probed too deeply into the unconscious and more attention needs to be focused to conscious or visible motivations.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Raymond Cattell, hans Eysenck, and Other Trait
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Q1) Spearman used factor analysis to measure mental abilities; Cattell resolved to apply the method to the structure of A) personality.
B) disorders.
C) circumstances.
D) research.
Q2) Cattell accepted the influences of both
A) free will and ultimate and necessary goals.
B) the superego and the id.
C) the conscious and unconscious.
D) nature and nurture.
Q3) The result of Cattell's lifetime of work is a system that is A) steadily continuing to gain acceptance.
B) respected but not widely accepted.
C) popular in the United States but not known abroad.
D) considered useful only by psychotherapists.
Q4) Environmental-mold traits derive from influences in our social and physical environments.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Abraham Maslow: Needs- Hierarchy Theory
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Q1) Compare and contrast the fundamental differences and similarities for Maslow's hierarchy of needs and his theory of cognitive needs.
Q2) Higher needs are
A) weaker than lower needs.
B) active later in life than lower needs.
C) less necessary than lower needs for survival.
D) all of the answers.
Q3) Self-actualizers can occasionally
A) feel doubt and shame.
B) be hurtful to others.
C) experience conflict and tension.
D) all of the answers.
Q4) Self-actualizers
A) focus on problems outside themselves.
B) focus mostly on their own goals and tasks.
C) focus on fulfilling childhood dreams and desires.
D) focus on their need to have many friends.
Q5) Maslow called the higher needs physiological needs.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Carl Rogers: Self-Actualization Theory
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Q1) (A)Give a real-life example of a close friend or family member whom you believe to be fully-functioning.(B)Apply Roger's six characteristics to describe how you perceive them to be fully-functioning.
Q2) Rogers used psychological tests to assess personality and developed many tests.
A)True
B)False
Q3) To Rogers,the fully functioning person is aware of their illnesses,both mental and physical,and is only threatened about life later on in the life span.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Rogers' work is significant in its attempt to
A) explain parent/child relations.
B) enumerate human needs.
C) define the self.
D) attack the unconscious.
Q5) Rogers believed that failure to realize our innate actualization tendency can lead to maladjustment.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: George Kelly: Personal Construct Theory
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Q1) A person makes hypotheses and tests them against A) cultural norms and taboos.
B) fictional goals.
C) experiences.
D) unconscious fears and wishes.
Q2) The only way a construct system can remain rigid is if the person A) is self-actualizing.
B) has a wide range of convenience. C) encounters no new experiences.
D) is extremely self-confident.
Q3) Over the course of life,we become rigid and uncompromising in our constructs. A)True
B)False
Q4) In developing his theory,Kelly drew heavily on A) psychoanalysis.
B) behaviorism.
C) trait theory.
D) Kelly's theory is not based on any of these theories.
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Chapter 12: Bfskinner: Reinforcement Theory
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Q1) Skinner suggests all of the following techniques of self-control except
A) satiation (overdoing problem behavior).
B) setting up unpleasant consequences for problem behavior.
C) physical punishment administered by a friend.
D) avoiding stimuli for problem behavior.
Q2) A rat pressing a lever in a Skinner box is showing ____ behavior.
A) emitted
B) elicited
C) punished
D) extinguished
Q3) At age 22,Skinner experienced
A) feelings of success and self-esteem.
B) an identity crisis.
C) jealousy of an older brother.
D) a late-blooming Oedipus complex.
Q4) Gambling is usually considered to be based on a variable-interval schedule of reinforcement.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Albert Bandura: Modeling Theory
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Q1) Describe a person who has acted as an influential model in your life.What important values did you learn from this person?
Q2) Modeling has been shown to
A) reduce anxiety about surgery.
B) reduce anxiety about tests.
C) work even when subjects only imagine a model.
D) all of these
Q3) The attentional process is retaining or remembering the model's behavior so that we can imitate or repeat it at a later time.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Bandura's assessment techniques include
A) self-report inventories and self-ratings.
B) projective techniques.
C) free association.
D) dream analysis.
Q5) The most influential source of efficacy judgments is performance attainment. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Mini- Theories: Locus of Control, sensation
Seeking, learned Helplessness, optimismpessimism,
positive Psychology, and Happiness and Success
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Q1) Women who have been physically abused tend to show an internal locus of control.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Seligman found that a feeling of having ____ control is related to learned helplessness.
A) total
B) greater
C) some
D) less
Q3) Zuckerman used the method of ____ to identify sensation seeking.
A) item analysis
B) factor analysis
C) statistical reduction
D) test-retest
Q4) Research shows that ______ and _____ may not have a strong relationship to happiness.
A) age/gender
B) race/cultural differences
C) wealth/poverty
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Chapter 15: Personality in Perspective
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Q1) All of the social and environmental forces that shape personality do so by the techniques of learning.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to ____,it is the parent's responsibility to supply unconditional positive regard to their children.
A) Rogers
B) Adler
C) Horney
D) Fromm
Q3) In one study,hostile mothers were found to rear children who did not become hostile.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The therapist who wrote about his or her own lack of parental warmth and affection was
A) Freud.
B) Bandura.
C) Erikson.
D) Horney.
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