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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) The mental health practitioner who is a specialist within the medical profession is a A) psychiatrist.
B) licensed marriage and family counselor.
C) social worker.
D) none of the above
Answer: A
Q2) It could be said that teaching is a primary activity engaged in by many clinical psychologists because
A) almost all clinical psychologists are also full-time faculty members.
B) most clinical psychologists are involved in developing research projects and supervising student research.
C) there are many opportunities for clinical psychologists to teach including college classrooms, research supervision, in-service trainings, and even during psychotherapy.
D) clinical psychologists need to teach to earn enough to support themselves.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Clinical Psychologys Past and Present
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Q1) Wilhem Wundt is considered the founder of psychology because A) the opening of his laboratory clearly proclaimed psychology as a science.
B) he was the only person at the time working on problems that were clearly psychological.
C) he was the first person to apply empirical methods to psychological processes.
D) all of the choices are correct
Answer: A
Q2) One significant reason that clinical psychologists are becoming increasingly interested in the biological causes of mental disorders is A) a belief that all clinical psychologists should have prescription-writing privileges.
B) An understanding that biological factors can often be modified by psychological interventions.
C) A reduced belief in the validity of the diathesis-stress model.
D) all of the above
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Basic Features of Clinical Assessment
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Q1) In order to distinguish between behaviors a client cannot engage in from those a client does not engage in, a clinician would
A) use the most reliable instrument available.
B) use the most valid instrument available.
C) attempt to cross-validate their findings by using multiple instruments.
D) create his or her own measure to evaluate the client.
Answer: D
Q2) It is the clinician's responsibility to assure that assessment goals are not socially or culturally biased.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Even when using an informal approach to processing assessment data, clinicians are significantly better at making judgments and diagnoses than nonclinicians.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Interviewing and Observation in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following would probably not be an important part of the opening of a first interview with a client?
A) establishing a comfortable rapport
B) frame setting
C) a discussion of fees
D) the use of open-ended questions
Q2) Self-report measures are now so reliable that it is not necessary to use observational assessment to help correct for errors.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Termination interviews are to therapy as debriefings are to clinical research.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Interviewing skills
A) are developed in clinical training by participating in carefully supervised practice. B) are so basic that little specific training is usually required.
C) provide information only about a client's verbal interactions. D) are usually taught by reading about them in books.
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Chapter 5: Testing in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) Training in the administration of the _____________is no longer required in some graduate psychology programs, even though many clinicians still find it a useful diagnostic measure.
A) WAIS-III
B) MMPI-2
C) Rorschach
D) Thematic Apperception Test
Q2) Psychologists using the analytic approach are most likely to
A) ascertain the qualities they want to measure.
B) define the qualities they want to measure.
C) create test items that measure the qualities they have defined.
D) all of the above
Q3) 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.
Q4) What are some reasons that projective personality tests are still used, even though their psychometric properties are fairly poor?
Q5) What are some of the ways that testers can minimize response distortions?
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Chapter 6: Basic Features of Clinical Interventions
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Q1) Which of the following is true about mental disorders and their treatment?
A) If left untreated, many of the common disorders are likely to recur.
B) More serious disorders usually appear at younger ages.
C) Treatment utilization rates are relatively low.
D) all of the above are true
Q2) Which of the following lists the common mental disorders in order of occurrence in the United States?
A) schizophrenia, depression, substance abuse disorders
B) bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, mental retardation
C) anxiety disorders, impulse control disorders, substance abuse disorders
D) autism, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders
Q3) Because the U.S.populace tends to be well-informed, mental health treatment utilization rates tend to be quite high.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The atmosphere of the clinical setting should reflect A) the needs of the client.
B) a safe and collaborative stance.
C) a sense of support for the client's work.
D) all of the above
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Chapter 7: Psychodynamic and Humanistic Psychotherapies
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Q1) After a trip to New York City, a client shares a dream in which she fell off the Empire State Building.In analyzing this dream, the Empire State Building would be considered the ______________ and the falling off would be the __________________.
A) manifest content; latent content
B) latent content; manifest content
C) phallic symbol; dream work
D) structural dimension; transference fear
Q2) A transference neurosis occurs when the client unconsciously replicates other relationships with the therapist.
A)True
B)False
Q3) By developing psychoanalysis, Freud can be considered the founder of psychotherapy as we know it today.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Emotion-focused therapy helps clients avoid feelings of vulnerability.
A)True
B)False
Q5) 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) What are the advantages for behavioral and cognitive approaches of being well-grounded in the empirical tradition in clinical psychology?
Q2) Cognitions may include all but which of the following?
A) beliefs, causal explanations
B) schemas and self-statements
C) free-floating anxiety
D) problem-solving strategies
Q3) Describe some ways that newer technologies facilitate behavioral therapies.
Q4) Schemas act as filters for perceptions of the self and of the world.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The antianxiety treatment known as systematic desensitization utilizes the principle of
A) reciprocal inhibition.
B) consequence modification.
C) operant conditioning.
D) all of the above
Q6) Cognitions are important because they mediate between the id and the ego.
A)True
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Chapter 9: Alternative Modes of Clinical Intervention
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Q1) According to the text, the use of alternative medical approaches with the hope of alleviating psychological disorders has increased in recent years.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Discuss three of the five areas in which "prevention science" research has demonstrated effectiveness in preventing psychopathology.
Q3) Chris has been practicing being able to stay present with her children without attempting to terminate the painful or prolonging the pleasant aspects of these encounters.She is practicing
A) mindfulness.
B) acceptance.
C) positive parenting interventions.
D) psychotherapy integration.
Q4) Prevention efforts in clinical and community psychology have been deleterious to the growth of the field of positive psychology.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the similarities and differences between "mindfulness" and "acceptance."
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Chapter 10: Research on Clinical Intervention
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Q1) Using the information about client variables presented in the text, describe the "best" psychotherapy client vis-à-vis treatment outcome.
Q2) A treatment is considered effective if
A) it works in large-scale studies run under controlled conditions.
B) it is useful in the real world of clinical service delivery.
C) it can be determined to work for all clients with a particular diagnosis.
D) clinicians determine that they want to use it in their practices.
Q3) The text's authors believe that an underlying factor in the divide between clinical science and clinical practice is that
A) effective therapists have good outcomes regardless of their approach, thus they tend to resist manualized treatment protocols, even though they are evidence-based.
B) clinicians often don't understand the nature of the research being conducted on treatment efficacy.
C) both of the above
D) neither of the above
Q4) Discuss what a Box Score Review entails, and what other methods are now used to evaluate the results of multiple research studies.
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Chapter 11: Clinical Child Psychology
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Q1) The relatively new field of study that looks at the study of childhood disorders in the context of the development of competencies, as well as disorders, is
A) clinical developmental assessment.
B) behavioral developmental pathology.
C) developmental psychopathology.
D) developmental clinical intervention.
Q2) Although growing up in poverty is known to be a risk factor for a variety of disorders, since it affects less than 10% of the population, it is rarely considered a significant issue for psychologists to pay attention to.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The concept of normative discontent illustrates
A) how normally occurring behaviors become disordered.
B) how important it is to understand a child's developmental level when assessing problems.
C) how distinct disordered behavior is from typical behaviors.
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) Why might social support be considered important, but also to carry some risks to adaptive functioning?
Q2) The transtheoretical model in health psychology
A) addresses cognitive factors involved in people's decision to change health-related behaviors.
B) assesses a client's readiness and ability to inhibit certain behaviors.
C) assesses a client's ability to perform certain behaviors.
D) all of the above
Q3) Health psychology has been a clinical specialty since WWII.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Anticipatory nausea
A) is an example of a classically conditioned response.
B) can cause patients to forego treatments that could be lifesaving.
C) is poorly controlled by standard anti-nausea medications.
D) all of the above
Q5) There appear to be factors that reduce stress reactions, and factors that amplify stress reactions.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Clinical Neuopsychology
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Q1) Localized brain damage can cause emotional effects, such as depression.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Because the symptoms can be subtle, a child with nonverbal learning disorders may be labeled
A) as having emotional problems.
B) as being behaviorally disturbed.
C) as being uncooperative.
D) all of the above
Q3) Ectopias are
A) the outer layers of brain regions.
B) tests for learning diorders.
C) misplaced brain cells.
D) implicated in schizophrenia.
Q4) Neuropsychology seeks to understand the relationship between brain processes and human behavior and psychological functioning.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Is the right hemisphere really the inferior hemisphere? Why or why not?
Q6) Describe the various ways brain lateralization is studied.
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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) According to the text, which of the following legal situations do many mental health professionals consider the most ethically challenging and clinically difficult?
A) psychological autopsies
B) advance medical directives
C) child custody and parental fitness evaluations
D) competency hearings
Q3) What are some of the problems with psychological autopsies? Should psychologists concern themselves with these issues? Why or why not?
Q4) Explain the McNaughton rule, and the impact it has had on present day forensic psychology.
Q5) Describe the difference between tort cases and criminal cases.
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Chapter 15: Professional Issues in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) According to the text, social, developmental and cognitive-affective neurosciences are likely to be more integrated with traditional psychotherapy in the future.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which model of psychology do the textbook authors consider "the champ?"
A) the clinical scientist model
B) the scientist-practitioner model
C) the practitioner-scholar model
D) the academic practitioner model
Q3) Diversity in the United States is at an all-time high and continuing to grow.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The laws that provide for psychologists to be reimbursed for mental health treatment are called
A) Tarasoff rulings.
B) freedom-of-choice laws.
C) mental health parity laws.
D) duty to warn laws.
Q5) Discuss the impact positive psychology has had on clinical psychology.
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Chapter 16: Getting Into Graduate School in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following should be addressed in letters of recommendation?
A) a student's motivation and conscientiousness
B) the student's ability to think intelligently about psychological issues
C) a student's maturity and ability to take on challenges responsibly
D) all of the above
Q2) Master's programs usually do not require as high a GRE score as do doctoral programs.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Taking a break between graduating from college and attending graduate school
A) is likely to have a negative impact on an applicant's subsequent success in getting into a graduate school.
B) is always a good idea. Since graduate school is so much work, it's best to go in rested.
C) may be beneficial, depending on what is done during the break.
D) may confuse the student and make it harder to "get back on the horse."
Q4) Discuss the different meanings attached to GPAs and GRE scores by admissions committees.
Q5) How might a student prepare for an onsite interview with a graduate admissions committee?
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