PSYC 435 QUIZ 2

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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!

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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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