Exam 3: Clinical Assessment

A criticism of the Family Assessment Measure-III developed by Skinner and associates is that:

Ed appears to have social phobia; the determination of this diagnosis was made by his scores on a particular measure of social fear. Scores like his have been shown in the past to be related to social phobia, as well as correlated with a variety of measures of social and occupational disability associated with social phobia. The measure Ed took would be said to have:

Zachary, a hunter from the James Bay area, was given the Kohs Blocks test and completed the test so fast that his IQ went "off the scale" (exceeded 180) on all seven examples. What does this tell us about IQ tests?

Average intelligence is associated with a score of approximately:

Computer score reports are quite popular in scoring which of the following instruments?

A Canadian study of Inuit children using the WISC-R's original norms found that their intelligence scores were:

Why should we not expect a one-to-one relationship between psychological and physical measures of brain functioning?

The projective hypothesis is derived from which paradigm?

Research with the Parental Bonding Inventory suggests that if a person is low in warmth but is very interfering and intrusive, he or she is said to be high in:

The process of clinical assessment involves

Therapeutic assessment and clinical assessment are the same thing.

The test you are currently writing is given to students in both Canada and the United States. Typically, Canadian students do better. If you, in fact, score better on this exam than your American counterparts, you are reinforcing:

Research on thought listing and test anxiety by Blankstein, Flett, and associates indicates that test anxious students, relative to non-test anxious students:

As a father, Andy is characterized by affectionless control. This means that Andy is:

Dr. X and Dr. Y are diagnosing a patient. After administering the SCID for DSM-IV, Dr. X decides the patient is suffering from schizophrenia while Dr. Y decides the patient is suffering from schizoaffective disorder. This kind of disagreement is an example of:

What does the acronym SORC represent? Do cognitive and behavioural therapists use it in the same way? Explain.

If one particular group (e.g., Inuit) score in an abnormal manner on an IQ test, it means the group is abnormal.

An electrocardiogram assesses the functioning of:

The Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA) is the largest epidemiological study to use neuropsychological tests in order to explore:

Economic pressures, such as reimbursement for a limited number of sessions, has lead clinicians to use __________ when engaging in assessment: