Psychotherapy Exam Questions
Course Introduction
Psychotherapy is a course that explores the theories, techniques, and applications of psychological interventions aimed at promoting mental health and well-being. The course provides an in-depth understanding of various psychotherapeutic approaches, including cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychodynamic therapy, humanistic therapy, and other evidence-based modalities. Students will learn the principles of therapeutic relationships, assessment, intervention planning, and ethical considerations. Through case studies and practical exercises, the course prepares students to understand the therapeutic process, develop basic counseling skills, and recognize the role of cultural and individual diversity in treatment outcomes.
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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) Working in administration has become an increasingly common professional activity for clinical psychologists as they progress through their careers.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The salaries of clinical psychologists vary widely with the work setting and the number of years of experience.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Among the personality variables considered most important for applicants to clinical psychology programs are
A) integrity, emotional stability, interest in people, and intellectual curiosity.
B) an ability to contain all emotional reactions.
C) very high intelligence as evidenced by high scores on standardized tests.
D) good social skills and an ability to "sell" particular services.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Clinical Psychologys Past and Present
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Q1) The approach to treatment that emphasizes personal constructs and attributions and appraisals as important determinants of human behavior is
A) behavior therapy.
B) Gestalt therapy.
C) cognitive therapy.
D) psychodynamic therapy.
Answer: C
Q2) During the first half of the 20th century, what activity came to characterize applied psychology more than any other?
A) intelligence testing
B) vision, hearing, and other sensory acuity testing
C) personality testing
D) psychoanalytic treatment
Answer: A
Q3) Psychological intelligence testing and personality testing developed at about the same time.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Basic Features of Clinical Assessment
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Q1) The breadth of an assessment device is referred to as its ____________; the depth of an assessment device is called its ________________.
A) fidelity; bandwidth
B) bandwidth; fidelity
C) reliability; criterion validity.
D) construct validity; test-retest reliability.
Answer: B
Q2) All areas of assessment's popularity have declined about equally since the early days of clinical psychology.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Which of the following is usually the first step in the assessment process?
A) Meeting with the client and establishing a working relationship.
B) Deciding on which instruments are going to be used.
C) Clarifying the referral question.
D) Determining who will pay for the service.
Answer: C
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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) The type of interview that usually establishes the nature of the problem being presented is
A) a mental status exam.
B) an intake interview.
C) a problem-referral interview.
D) an orientation interview.
Q3) In order to improve informal observation methods, clinicians should
A) lengthen the first interview session to facilitate the sharing of anecdotal information.
B) consult with other clinicians about information obtained during early interviews.
C) observe overt behaviors and place greater emphasis on them during the interview.
D) focus on establishing a diagnosis as quickly as possible.
Q4) When conceiving the setting for interviews, the interviewer must be careful to avoid any personal effects, as they might taint the client's responses.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Testing in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) The hypothesis that states that an individual's personality will influence how he or she responds to ambiguous stimuli is called
A) the projective hypothesis.
B) the triarchic theory.
C) the psychodynamic theory of response.
D) the "big five" trait hypothesis.
Q2) Alfred Binet was the first person to develop a measure of intelligence.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The extent to which tests can be used to specify treatment approaches or measure treatment outcomes is referred to as
A) treatment or clinical utility.
B) external or criterion validity.
C) clinical efficacy.
D) psychotherapy/assessment integration.
Q4) According to the Mental Measurements Yearbook, there are often several different tests designed to measure the same characteristic.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 6: Basic Features of Clinical Interventions
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Q1) The sole purpose of ethical guidelines is to protect the client and therapist from legal hazards.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Two tasks that many clinicians and college professors share are
A) providing information and giving homework.
B) giving tests and assigning grades.
C) being available 24/7 for their students/clients.
D) all of the above
Q3) While homework is a useful educational tool, it is rarely helpful in the psychotherapeutic setting.
A)True
B)False
Q4) One area that graduate programs may not address fully, according to many therapists, is
A) how to choose the correct assessment protocols.
B) how to conduct initial sessions to develop therapeutic alliances.
C) how to manage their own emotions and use them therapeutically.
D) knowing when to terminate treatment.
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Chapter 7: Psychodynamic and Humanistic Psychotherapies
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Q1) What could be considered the main contribution of humanistic therapies to the larger field of psychotherapy?
Q2) The psychoanalytic continuum from unconscious to preconscious, to conscious thought is called the structural model of the mind.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The therapeutic approach that is often used with resistant clients, such as substance abusers, is called
A) Gestalt therapy.
B) existential psychotherapy.
C) postmodern humanism.
D) motivational interviewing.
Q4) The theorists who sought to use psychoanalytic techniques to understand and explore clients' strengths and adaptive ego functions are collectively called
A) individual psychologists.
B) object-relations therapists.
C) ego analysts.
D) reverse psychoanalysts.
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Chapter 8: Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapies
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Q1) Describe some ways that newer technologies facilitate behavioral therapies.
Q2) Individuals tend to pay much more attention to information that supports their beliefs than that which refutes them.This is called the
A) confirmation bias.
B) attributional bias.
C) explicit belief schema.
D) tendency to catastrophize.
Q3) Organized knowledge structures that influence how we process information are called
A) cognitions.
B) schemas.
C) constellations of belief.
D) attributions.
Q4) Which of the following would probably NOT be amenable to exposure treatments?
A) agoraphobia and the panic attacks that precede it
B) obsessive-compulsive disorder
C) depression
D) binge craving in bulimia
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Q5) What are the three main goals of cognitive therapy?
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Chapter 9: Alternative Modes of Clinical Intervention
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a primary goal of community psychology?
A) help individuals adapt to and cope with their environment
B) to understand the broader causes of behavior problems
C) carry out primary prevention at the community level
D) all of the above are goals of community psychology
Q2) In community psychology, an ecological perspective refers to A) understanding that alleviating individual problems requires changes in environmental settings.
B) utilizing individual competencies to effect changes.
C) both a and b in conjunction
D) neither a nor b
Q3) Prior to the 1950s, very few therapists worked with families.The numbers of family therapists peaked in the 1970s and has declined gradually since then.
A)True
B)False
Q4) There are times when a therapist sees both members of a couple.This procedure is called "conjoint therapy."
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Research on Clinical Intervention
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Q1) The theorist who argued that the spontaneous remission rate for individuals who did not receive therapy was higher than the remission rates for those who did was
A) Carl Rogers.
B) Sigmund Freud.
C) Martin Seligman.
D) Hans Eysenck.
Q2) Discuss three outcome research goals.
Q3) Discuss what a Box Score Review entails, and what other methods are now used to evaluate the results of multiple research studies.
Q4) Which of the following client factors probably increase effectiveness of clinical interventions?
A) openness
B) high levels of self-disclosure
C) strong expectations of treatment success
D) all of the above
Q5) Strong group cohesion and therapeutic alliances enhance the benefits of group therapy.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Clinical Child Psychology
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Q1) The broadband concepts of internalizing and externalizing disorders are new to the field and lack empirical support.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The most common intelligence test used with children is the ___________ and the most frequently used achievement test is the ____________.
A) Thematic Apperception Test; WJ-III
B) WISC-IV; Rorschach
C) WISC-IV; WJ-III
D) WJ-III; WISC-IV
Q3) Over half of children with diagnosable psychological disorders receive outpatient mental health treatment.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Children display resilience when they show positive outcomes even when exposed to one or more risk factors.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why do some clinicians have some concerns with structured interviews?
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Chapter 12: Health Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following are considered psychological risk factors?
A) humor and optimism
B) stress management techniques
C) overeating, smoking, and poor diet
D) aggressiveness, anxiety, and depression
Q2) Describe the three stages to Selye's general adaptation syndrome.
Q3) Why might social support be considered important, but also to carry some risks to adaptive functioning?
Q4) The interdisciplinary science that integrates knowledge from the social/behavioral sciences and medicine, and focuses on understanding and treating medical disorders is called
A) psychiatry.
B) behavioral medicine.
C) biopsychosocial medicine.
D) integrative psychotherapy.
Q5) The health belief model (HBM) helps explain
A) why some patients don't adhere to treatment plans.
B) why some patients don't get along with their doctors.
C) the reasons some doctors discontinue treatments for some patients.
D) all of the above
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Chapter 13: Clinical Neuopsychology
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Q1) Neuropsychologists have finally developed a complete and integrated account of schizophrenia.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A client always takes metaphors literally.If the client is an adult, one might suspect right hemisphere dysfunction.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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.
Q4) Apraxia refers to disordered language abilities, while amnesia refers to disorders of memory.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Forensic Psychology
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Q1) The insanity plea is entered in what percent of criminal cases?
A) .2%
B) .5%
C) 5%
D) 10%
Q2) Describe the factors that research indicates are, and are not, associated with poorer child adjustment after parental divorce.
Q3) Expert witnesses on psychological matters
A) are becoming increasingly rare as the public is becoming more skeptical of their findings.
B) testify in more than 25% of trials held in federal court.
C) testify in as many as 1,000,000 civil trials a year.
D) are more common in criminal than in civil trials.
Q4) Federal Rule of Evidence 702 concerns
A) the reliability of scientific expert testimony.
B) the applicability of the testimony to the facts of the case.
C) the qualifications of the expert who is testifying.
D) all of the above
Q5) 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) In many states the Tarasoff ruling has had the effect of
A) requiring clinicians to violate confidentiality in certain circumstances.
B) imposing a "duty to warn" on clinicians.
C) raising questions about a "duty to warn" when working with individuals with HIV/AIDS.
D) all of the above
Q2) Clinical psychology has a history of stormy relationships with the medical profession.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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
Q4) Certification protects only the title of psychologist.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the impact positive psychology has had on clinical psychology.
Q6) Discuss the major differences between Ph.D.and Psy.D.training programs.
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Chapter 16: Getting Into Graduate School in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) In deciding how many programs to apply to for graduate study in clinical psychology, the general rule of thumb is
A) to apply to one's top three choices.
B) to apply to one's top three choices, then to a couple more that have lower admissions standards.
C) to apply to ten programs.
D) to apply to as many programs as one can reasonably afford.
Q2) A personal statement should help the admissions committee understand that the applicant is
A) intellectually curious and highly motivated.
B) hardworking and conscientious.
C) interested in specific areas of research.
D) all of the above
Q3) APA accreditation of a clinical psychology program guarantees
A) acceptance into an APA accredited internship.
B) licensure for successful graduates.
C) jobs in the field upon completion of the program.
D) a minimum standard of quality.
Q4) Discuss the different meanings attached to GPAs and GRE scores by admissions committees.
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