Exam 3: Clinical Assessment, Classification, and Diagnosis

The DSM-5 is based on dimensional diagnostic criteria.

When Inuit children and non-Inuit children score radically differently on IQ tests, the best explanation may be that:

Reliability has been improved in the editions of the DSM since DSM-III by

Karine is a nurse practitioner working in a psychiatric setting. She was looking forward to the release of DSM-5, but now finds that she doesn't use it. She is:

In order to study the reliability of a diagnostic category, we would study whether

The call for using evidence-based assessment techniques parallels the growth in the area of:

On the Statistical Clinical Interview Diagnosis (SCID), the severity of a symptom is indicated by:

The DSM is based on a medical model of disease.

Based on the projective hypothesis, projective tests' real purposes are:

Being interested in epidemiology means that:

The projective hypothesis assumes that

Non-suicidal self-injury is listed in DSM-5 as:

Non-suicidal self-injury is not a disorder on its own, as it is a symptom of borderline personality disorder.

Which of the following was not a change made in the revised version of the MMPI?

What characterizes the SCID?

The MMPI detects individuals attempting to fake the test by

The assessment of intellectual functioning and related processes in patients who have experience trauma (e.g., stroke)and as result, lack communication abilities is a major problem facing clinicians. One solution to this problem is the use of ____________ to examine cognitive functioning.

Bella is a 10 year old girl who doesn't seem to have outgrown the "terrible twos" - she has temper tantrums on a regular basis. What diagnosis is she most likely to get when she visits a psychologist?

Asperger's syndrome is a diagnosis in DSM-5.

DSM-IV-TR is based on a categorical diagnostic system. DSM-5 is based on a ____________ diagnostic system.