Psychopathology Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Psychopathology is the scientific study of mental disorders, including their symptoms, causes, development, and treatment. This course provides an in-depth examination of major psychological disorders as classified in the DSM, such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, and personality disorders. Students will explore the biological, psychological, and social factors that contribute to abnormal behavior, as well as approaches to assessment, diagnosis, and intervention. By integrating case studies, contemporary research, and theoretical perspectives, the course aims to develop a nuanced understanding of mental health challenges and the complexities involved in addressing them in clinical and community settings.
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Introduction to Clinical Psychology 4th Edition by John Hunsley
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Chapter 1: The Evolution of Clinical Psychology
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Q1) Current mental disorder classification systems have their origins in the work of A) Emil Kraepelin.
B) David Wechsler.
C) Wilhelm Wundt.
D) Alfred Binet.
Answer: A
Q2) What is considered the "gold standard" in the assessment of intellectual abilities?
A) The MMPI
B) The DSM-III
C) The Army Beta test
D) The Wechsler scales
Answer: D
Q3) Psychology's role in test construction and measurement in the United States was solidified by psychologists's role in
A) developing tests for the American military.
B) developing intelligence tests for children.
C) developing assessments of personality.
D) research on assessment for specific mental disorders.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Contemporary Clinical Psychology
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Q1) According to the textbook,what is the most important tenet of professional and research ethical codes?
A) Random assignment.
B) Informed consent.
C) Using empirically validated techniques.
D) Responsibility to society.
Answer: B
Q2) As of 2015,a candidate for registration in Ontario
A) must have received at least a Master's Degree.
B) must have received a Ph.D. from a program that is accredited by the Canadian Psychological Association or its equivalent
C) must have received a Ph.D. and have completed at least two years of post-doctoral experience.
D) must have practiced for at least 5 years after receiving the graduate degree.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Classification and Diagnosis
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Q1) Research has categorized children's difficulties into two broad dimensions of problems: internalizing and externalizing.Internalizing problems refer to
A) yelling and destroying things.
B) sadness and withdrawn behaviour.
C) behaviour that occurs when the person is in a social setting.
D) attributing blame one's problem behaviour to oneself.
Answer: B
Q2) In determining whether or not behaviour is abnormal,one must consider
A) the context in which the behaviour occurs.
B) the age of the person exhibiting the behaviour.
C) the cultural heritage of the person exhibiting the behaviour.
D) all of the above.
Answer: D
Q3) When determining whether or not behaviour is abnormal,what must a mental health professional consider?
Answer: Suggested answer:
a.The client's age,developmental stage,cultural heritage,and context of the behaviour.
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Chapter 4: Research Methods in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) A __________ variable explains the mechanism by which a predictor variable influences a criterion variable.
A) mediator
B) moderator
C) independent
D) relational
Q2) Donald Campbell encouraged researchers to proactively identify and remedy potential design problems that could undermine a study's _________.
A) clinical significance.
B) reliability.
C) validity.
D) procedures.
Q3) Concluding there is no effect when a true effect exists is known as a
A) type I error.
B) type II error.
C) type III error.
D) low effect size.
Q4) Describe three threats to the internal validity of a study.
Q5) Describe the three kinds of reliability described in the text.
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Chapter 5: Assessment: Overview
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Q1) Assessments conducted primarily to provide information addressing a person's current or anticipated psychosocial deficits are referred to as _________ services.
A) intervention-focused
B) assessment-focused
C) evaluative
D) prognostic
Q2) Describe the term prognosis as it relates to the assessment process.
Q3) A procedure to identify individuals who may have clinically significant problems or who may be at risk for developing such problems is referred to as a _______ procedure.
A) diagnostic
B) screening
C) treatment-planning
D) treatment-evaluation
Q4) Assessment is ______ complex and ______ multifaceted than is testing.
A) less ; less
B) less ; more
C) more ; more
D) more ; less
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Chapter 6: Assessment: Interviewing and Observation
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Q1) List two different types of non-directive listening responses and provide a brief description of each.
Q2) The Dominic Interactive is a diagnostic interview for children aged 6 to11 years,which uses ____________ as cues.
A) cartoon drawings
B) colours
C) animals
D) puppets
Q3) Children ________ entitled to know about confidentiality and its limits:
A) are not
B) are C) are sometimes
D) are rarely
Q4) There is emerging evidence that interpreter-mediated services
A) are never effective.
B) are harmful to recipients.
C) can be effective.
D) are not suitable for children.
Q5) Provide the main distinction between open and closed questions,as well as one disadvantage of each.
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Chapter 7: Assessment: Intellectual and Cognitive Measures
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Q1) The formula for the Stanford-Binet intelligence quotient is
A) IQ = (MA x CA) x 100.
B) IQ = (MA x CA)/100.
C) IQ = (MA/CA) x 100.
D) IQ = (MA/CA)/100.
Q2) Which of the following subtests measures crystallized intelligence?
A) Digit Span.
B) Visual Puzzles.
C) Comprehension.
D) Block Design.
Q3) Spearman's theory of intelligence was known as a
A) one-factor model (general factors).
B) two-factor model (general factors and specific factors).
C) three-factor model (general factors, specific factors and contextual factors).
D) multi-factor model (influence of contextual factors on general and specific factors).
Q4) What is the key difference between fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence?
Q5) How do Alfred Binet and David Wechsler's definitions of intelligence contrast?
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Chapter 8: Assessment: Self-Report and Projective Measures
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Q1) When conducting an assessment with a client from an ethnic minority background for whom no culturally validated measures are available,the psychologist should:
A) avoid using scores, or indicate that the scores may not provide an optimal assessment of the client's functioning.
B) indicate in the assessment report that accuracy and validity of results may be less than ideal.
C) use the test only to aid in generating hypotheses about the client's functioning. D) all of the above.
Q2) The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-IV has the following limitation to its validity:
A) the normative sample was smaller than usual.
B) partly due to item overlap, the scale has a tendency to overpathologize individuals.
C) there is insufficient item overlap between scales to account for symptoms that appear in more than one disorder.
D) partly due to item overlap, the scale has a tendency to underestimate rates of pathology.
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Chapter 9: Assessment Integration and Clinical Decision-Making
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Q1) What is a self-serving attributional bias?
Q2) Why is it important for psychologists to be aware that data from multiple self-report tests and interviews are not independent sources?
Q3) The approach to psychological assessment in which clients are actively encouraged to participate in discussions about the reasons for the assessment,the results of the testing,and how the assessment data should be integrated and interpreted is known as the:
A)therapeutic model of assessment.
B)collaborative model of evaluation.
C)client-focused model of assessment.
D)client-driven model of evaluation.
Q4) When interpreting self-report checklists,psychologists ought to know that
A)desirability might reduce the accuracy of responses.
B)desirability might improve the accuracy of responses.
C)people tend to be more accurate when reporting events some time after the fact.
D)people tend to provide comparable reports,regardless of whether the information is provided right after the event,or later recalled.
Q5) What is a case formulation? Describe two benefits of having a case formulation.
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Chapter 10: Prevention
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Q1) What is community psychology?
Q2) The number of new cases of a specific problem is referred to as the A)incidence rate.
B)prevalence rate.
C)number needed to treat.
D)effectiveness rate.
Q3) The Incredible Years training program was developed to help
A)children who had been identified as having conduct problems.
B)youth who had been identified as having internalizing problems.
C)elderly individuals who had been identified as having mental health issues.
D)all of the above.
Q4) Children and youth are most commonly referred to mental health clinics for A)attention or concentration issues.
B)internalizing problems,such as with depression or anxiety.
C)externalizing problems,such as aggressive or non-compliant behaviour.
D)bed-wetting.
Q5) Describe critical incident stress debriefing.What has research demonstrated about its effectiveness?
Q6) What is the main difference between universal and selective preventive interventions?
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Chapter 11: Intervention: Overview
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Q1) Psychotherapy clients are most likely to
A)be male.
B)be female.
C)have a lower income.
D)be older adults.
Q2) Which of the following can be both a positive and negative aspect of group therapy?
A)Universality.
B)Modelling of behaviour.
C)Support.
D)Cost-effectiveness.
Q3) Whose seminal findings demonstrated that learning can take place by observation and imitation?
A)Albert Bandura
B)Carl Rogers
C)Albert Ellis
D)B.F.Skinner
Q4) Define self-efficacy.What can self-efficacy predict that is relevant to cognitive-behaviour therapy?
Q5) What is transference?
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Chapter 12: Intervention: Adults and Couples
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Q1) The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)stepped care model for the management of depression includes the following possible treatments except:
A)electroconvulsive therapy.
B)antidepressant medication.
C)interpersonal psychotherapy.
D)transcranial magnetic stimulation.
Q2) In reference to psychotherapy research,what is an open trial?
Q3) In cognitive-behavioural treatment of depression,behavioural activation tasks could include
A)making a special meal.
B)relaxing on the couch.
C)disputing dysfunctional beliefs.
D)reflecting on life goals.
Q4) An effect size of d = .66 means that
A)there is a difference of two-thirds of a standard deviation between groups.
B)there is a standard score mean difference of .66 between groups.
C)there is a difference of 66% between groups.
D)the treated group is a third as likely as the control group to suffer from psychopathology after treatment.
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Chapter 13: Intervention: Children and Adolescents
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Q1) Multisystemic Therapy (MST)is an approach to treat delinquent adolescents by
A)combining CBT and family therapy.
B)challenging youth about the long term effects of their behaviour.
C)intervening in an integrated way in the multiple systems in which youth are involved.
D)demanding as much effort from youth as from parents.
Q2) Hawley and Weisz (2005)found that the youth-therapist alliance was related to _______,whereas the parent-therapist alliance was related to ________________.
A)participation in therapy; symptom improvement.
B)symptom improvement; participation in therapy.
C)satisfaction with services; symptom improvement.
D)participation in therapy; satisfaction with services.
Q3) Lee,Horvath,and Hunsley (2013)found that evidence-based treatments for children and youth
A)can be effective when used in routine practice settings.
B)are slightly less effective in routine practice settings than in research settings.
C)are much less effective in routine practice settings.
D)cannot be transported to routine practice settings.
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Chapter 14: Intervention: Identifying Key Elements of Change
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Q1) Early treatment gains for individuals in treatment for major depressive disorders have been shown in individuals receiving
A)cognitive therapy.
B)placebo medication.
C)short-term psychodynamic therapy.
D)all of the above.
Q2) Research suggests that patient compliance in completing homework acts as a moderator of the relation between positive treatment expectations and
A)therapist characteristics,such as empathy.
B)relapse prevention following termination of therapy.
C)initial improvement in functioning.
D)increased therapeutic alliance.
Q3) Lambert and Ogles (2004)categorized the most commonly suggested common factors in psychotherapy into the following main dimensions:
A)psychoeducational,emotional,and cognitive factors.
B)vulnerability,protective,and educational factors.
C)support,learning,and action factors.
D)internalized,externalized,and alliance factors.
Q4) What are the important components of the e therapeutic alliance.
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Chapter 15: Health Psychology, Clinical Neuropsychology, and Forensic Psychology
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Q1) Define the conceptualization of disability within both a)a medical model and b)a social model.
Q2) Viljoen,MacLachlan,and Vincent (2010)found that forensic psychologists routinely used standardized measures in assessing violence risk among youth and adults.Those working with ________ offenders were less likely to include measures of psychopathy than were those working with __________ offenders. A)young; repeat B)young; adult C)adult; young D)adult; repeat
Q3) A survey of rehabilitation programs within the American Hospital Association (2003)revealed that _________ programs incorporated neuropsychological testing for individuals who had been hospitalized for a stroke or brain injury. A)no B)few C)most D)all
Q4) List two helpful (either psychological or physical)and two unhelpful methods to manage children's acute pain.
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