PSYC 435 QUIZ 2
Understanding Psychological Assessment: Quiz
Test your knowledge on psychological assessment and concepts related to mental health and disorders. This quiz covers a variety of important topics, including PTSD, phobias, and the Rorschach test. Perfect for students and professionals alike!
- Explore 15 thought-provoking multiple-choice questions
- Challenge yourself and enhance your understanding of psychological concepts
Psychological assessment refers to the
Procedures used to summarize a client's problem
Process used to arrive at a diagnosis
Development of a treatment plan
Determination of how environmental factors impact the course of a disorder
Having a history of psychological problems before going into combat
Will make a soldier much more likely to develop PTSD
Will only make a soldier much more likely to develop PTSD if the combat situation is extreme
Sometimes increases the risk of PTSD, but it might lower the risk because the person is used to anxiety and copes automatically with it
Has no impact on developing PTSD
Evolutionary preparedness explains
Why phobic people are likely to maintain their avoidance behaviour
How the inflation effect works
Why cognitive variables are so important in phobias
Why some types of phobias are much more common than other
Neurotic behaviour is
Maladaptive and means that a person is out of touch with reality
A current term, used to described many disorders in the DSM 5
What we now refer to as "hysteria"
Maladaptive but means that a person is not out of touch with reality
James began having panic attacks immediately after his mom died suddenly. As they become more frequent, he began to fear going into public situations where they might occur. Now he is unable to leave his apartment and has others go out to shop for him. What is unusual about this case
It is unusual for a person with severe agoraphobia to be a man
It is unusual for panic attacks to begin after stressful life event
It is unusual for fear of panic attacks to lead to agoraphobia
There is nothing unusual about this case
Which of the following best explains why the Rorschach is less likely to be used today?
Other projective approaches have been found to be more reliable
Treatment facilities require other types of information than Rorschach provides, and insurance companies do not pay for it
It is inexpensive and time efficient in comparison to other projective techniques
The Rorschach is only useful as means of aiding clients in self-discovery, it has no true clinical utility.
Which approach to the classification of abnormal behaviour uses statistical criteria to differentiate between normal and abnormal
Categorical
Dimensional
Prototypical
Situational
What does stress tend to do to telomeres?
Increase their strength
Decrease their strength
Increase their physical length
Decrease their physical length
The term "stress" is used to refer to
Only those external events in our lives that challenge us
Any positive demand made on an organism
The effects of external stressors within the organism
Anything that makes us unhappy
As an assessment, diagnostic interviews can be
Structure or unstructed
Projective or objective
Difficult or easy
Empirical or conceptual
Virtual reality exposure treatment for PTSD has been shown to
Have no effect on PTSD symptoms
Have a significant effect in increasing PTSD symptoms
Have significant effects in decreasing PTSD symptoms
Have no scientific basis
Which of the following provides a unique challenge when trying to eliminate the obsessions seen in OCD?
The client is likely to feel that his or her concerns are ju
Attempting to not think about something might lead to thinking about it more
Obsession's are likely to only be experienced under certain environment conditions
Medications are ineffective in suppressing obsession's
Which of the following will lessen the impact of a stressful situation?
Holding unrealistic expectations about the stressor
Minimizing the use of social support
Preparing for the stressor
Being uncertain as to how long the stressor will persist
Under what circumstances is a structed interview most likely to be used
When consistent information is needed for research purposes
When an accurate diagnosis is needed to ensure appropriate treatment
When the behaviour of the client is erratic
When the information provided in an unstructured interview is found to lack reliability
One of the main functions that worry seems to serve in generalized anxiety disorder is
To keep people distracted form what is really bothering them
To keep people with the disorder feeling happier than if they didn't worry
To prevent people with the disorder from developing depression
To keep people from feeling the emotional and physiological consequences of anxiety
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