(Test Bank) Abnormal Psychology

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Abnormal Psychology 7th Ed By Susan Nolen Hoeksema Sample Test Chapter 03 Assessing and Diagnosing Abnormality Current guidelines for diagnosing mental disorders use to make diagnoses. ranges of scores subjective systems C. thresholds continuum models Page: 59 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology. Bloom’s: Remember Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: Define key concepts of assessment. Topic: Assessment The process of gathering information about an individual’s symptoms and the possible causes of these symptoms is referred to as . A. assessment diagnosis treatment study Page: 60 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology. Bloom’s: Remember Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: Define key concepts of assessment. Topic: Assessment Which of the following is a label for a set of symptoms that often occur together? Marker Typology C. Diagnosis Assessment Page: 60 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology. Bloom’s: Remember Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: Define key concepts of assessment. Topic: Assessment Tina’s parents are concerned because she seems to have trouble writing. She often writes her numbers backwards and misspells words. The school suggests that they seek p sychological counseling for Tina, especially since the problem occurred after the family’s car accident. Why might the family need a psychologist? A. Psychologists can assess cognitive deficits such as learning disabilities. A psychologist would be more sympathetic to the parents’ concerns. A psychologist could consult after ruling out biological causes for the problem. Psychologists are concerned with the emotional well-being of individuals. Page: 60 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.3 Describe applications of psychology. Bloom’s: Apply Difficulty: Difficult Learning Objective: Define key concepts of assessment. Topic: Assessment Which term refers to the accuracy of a test in assessing what it is supposed to measure? Reliability B. Validity Constructability Generalizability Page: 60 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology. Bloom’s: Remember Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools. Topic: Assessment Jason was taking a test to measure his general level of anxiety. When he glanced over the test, the questions seemed as though they were related to his problem. In this scenario, the test most likely had validity. predictive concurrent content D. face Page: 61 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology. Bloom’s: Apply Difficulty: Difficult Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools. Topic: Assessment If a test assesses all important aspects of a phenomenon, the test is said to have validity. A. content construct concurrent contextual Page: 61 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology. Bloom’s: Remember Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools. Topic: Assessment Mark takes a test to measure his general level of anxiety. After taking the test, Mark realizes that the test contains questions only on the physical symptoms of anxiety and no ques tions on the cognitive symptoms, which are equally important aspects of the phenomenon of anxiety. In this case, the test mostly lacks . alternate -form reliability B. content validity test-retest reliability predictive validity Page: 61 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.3 Describe applications of psychology. Bloom’s: Apply Difficulty: Difficult Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools. Topic: Assessment validity is the extent to which a test yields the same results as other, established measures of the same phenomena. Construct B. Concurrent Content Predictive Page: 61 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology. Bloom’s: Remember Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools. Topic: Assessment A test is considered to have predictive validity when it: measures what it intends to measure and not something else. seems on its face to measure what it intends to measure. yields results similar to those of other established measures. D. reliably represents how a person will think, feel, or behave in the future. Page: 61 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology. Bloom’s: Remember Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools. Topic: Assessment The extent to which a test measures what it is supposed to measure and not something else altogether is representative of validity. predictive concurrent C. construct face Page: 61 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology. Bloom’s: Remember Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools. Topic: Assessment A test that is consistent in measuring what it is supposed to measure is considered to have . A. reliability generalizability validity constructability Page: 61 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology. Bloom’s: Remember Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools. Topic: Assessment reliability refers to how consistent the results of a test are over time. Alternate form Internal consistency Inter -rater D. Test -retest Page: 61–62 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology. Bloom’s: Remember Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools. Topic: Assessment Wallace took an anxiety test when he was in the sixth grade. He took it in the first week of a particular month and then again in the last week of the same month. On both occasions, his test scores were practically the same. In this scenario, the anxiety test Wallace took was most likely high on reliability. internal consistency B. test-retest inter -rater alternate form Page: 61–62 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.3 Describe applications of psychology. Bloom’s: Apply Difficulty: Difficult Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools. Topic: Assessment A researcher should expect low test-retest reliability for an anxiety questionnaire that measures: general tendencies. enduring characteristics. C. current symptoms. broad tendencies. Page: 62 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology. Bloom’s: Understand Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools. Topic: Assessment Simon developed two forms of an intelligence test. In the second form, he changed the wording and order of the questions. He administered both forms to the same group of participants two weeks apart. While scoring the tests, Simon realized that the participants’ answers to the different forms of the test were dissimilar. In this case, the tests are said to have: high test-retest reliability. low test-retest reliability. high alternate form reliability. D. low alternate form reliability. Page: 62 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.3 Describe applications of psychology. Bloom’s: Apply Difficulty: Difficult Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools. Topic: Reliability and Validity refers to the similarity in people’s answers among different parts of the same test. Content validity B. Internal consistency reliability External validity Alternate form reliability Page: 62 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology. Bloom’s: Remember Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools. Topic: Assessment When different individuals score a test and come to similar conclusions after evaluating the same people, the test is said to have reliability. A. high inter -rater low inter -judge low internal high test -retest Page: 62 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology. Bloom’s: Remember Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools. Topic: Assessment Which of the following is the best method of improving the validity and reliability of psychological tests? Conducting at least three trials before using them for research B. Standardizing their administration and interpretation Limiting their use to patients with severe disorders Having them reviewed by professionals in the field of psychopathology Page: 62 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology. Bloom’s: Understand Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools. Topic: Standardization An initial interview in a clinical setting may include a exam, to assess the client’s general functioning. mental illness medical health C. mental status medical status Page: 62 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology. Bloom’s: Remember Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: Describe clinical interviews. Topic: Clinical Experiences On Lee’s first visit to a psychologist’s office, the psychologist asks him a series of questions about his personal and family history. These questions: A. are part of his initial interview. serve a single purpose of putting the client at ease. are just a formality with no real diagnostic value. reflect the client’s ability to diagnose his own condition. Page: 62 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.3 Describe applications of psychology. Bloom’s: Apply Difficulty: Difficult Learning Objective: Describe clinical interviews. Topic: Interview Types During an initial interview, Diane, a clinician, notes that her client tends to laugh excessively at his own jokes. He has disheveled hair and soiled clothes. Which types of information has Diane noted about her client? Mood and affect; orientation to plac e, time, and person Orientation to place, time, and person; thought processes Thought processes; intellectual functioning D. Mood and affect; appearance and behavior Page: 62 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.3 Describe applications of psychology. Bloom’s: Apply Difficulty: Difficult Learning Objective: Describe clinical interviews. Topic: Clinical Experiences In a mental status exam, when a clinician takes note of how coherently and quickly a client speaks, the clinician is primarily assessing the client’s . mood and affect appearance and behavior C. thought processes orientation to place, time, and person Page: 62 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overa rching themes in psychology. Bloom’s: Remember Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: Describe clinical interviews. Topic: Clinical Experiences In a mental status exam, the clinician evaluates a client’s by observing how well the client speaks and looking for indications of memory or attention difficulties. mood and affect B. cognitive functioning appearance and behavior orientation to place, time, and person Page: 62 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology. Bloom’s: Remember Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: Describe clinical interviews. Topic: Clinical Experiences Which kind of interview is standardized and uses concrete criteria to score the person’s answers? Initial Unguided C. Structured Definitive Page: 62 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology. Bloom’s: Remember Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: Describe clinical interviews. Topic: Clinical Experiences Rudolph, a client, was asked a set of questions by his clinician in his initial interview. The questions were highly standardized and objective. Rudolph was surprised because his friends had told him to expect general and open -ended questions such as, “Tell me about yourself.” The clinician most likely conducted a . behavioral observation projective test survey D. structured interview Page: 62 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.3 Describe applications of psychology. Bloom’s: Apply Difficulty: Difficult Learning Objective: Describe clinical interviews. Topic: Clinical Experiences Which of the following is a quick way for a clinician to determine a client’s symptoms? A. Symptom questionnaire Personality inventory Luria -Nebraska Test Computerized tomography (CT) scan Page: 62 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.2 Develop a working knowledge of psychology’s content domains. Bloom’s: Remember Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools. Topic: Questionnaires Which of the following statements is true about the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)? It assesses whether the respondent qualifies for a diagnosis of depression. B. It has 21 items, each of which describes four levels of a given symptom of depression. It clearly differentiates between the clinical syndrome of depression and the general distress that may be related to an anxiety disorder. It has cutoff scores that help indicate only severe levels of depressive symptoms. Page: 63 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology. Bloom’s: Understand Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools. Topic: Questionnaires During 28-year -old Sophia’s second visit to the psychologist, the clinician gave her a symptom questionnaire that assessed her symptoms of loss of interest, low motivation, and changes in her appetite. Sophia most likely received the . Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) B. Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) Insomnia Severity Index Bender -Gestalt Test Page: 63 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.3 Describe applications of psychology. Bloom’s: Apply Difficulty: Difficult Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools. Topic: Questionnaires Critics of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) argue that it: is incapable of responding to the new manifestations of depressive symptoms. is too easy to administer, and increases the likelihood that clients will provide false responses. C. does not clearly differentiate between depressive symptoms and general distress related to other disorders. does not prove to be adequate assessment for the complicated clinical syndrome of depression. Page: 63 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology. Bloom’s: Understand Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools. Topic: Questionnaires Which of the following is used to assess people’s typical ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving? An intelligence test A symptom questionnaire A projective test D. A personality inventory Page: 63 Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology. Bloom’s: Remember Difficulty: Easy