Exam 9: Assessment Integration and Clinical Decision-Making

The tendency to take more personal credit for successes than for failures,by attributing success but not failure to internal,stable,and global causes is referred to as

The process whereby a psychologist develops a clinical hunch and then gathers information to support his/her predictions is referred to as an)

The Cognitive-Behavioural Case Formulation approach,developed by Jacqueline Persons,emphasizes the importance in identifying a patient's ___________ in the conceptualization of a case.

Providing assessment feedback to a client:

Research consistently shows that agreement on the _______ by the client and therapist is the core of an effective therapeutic alliance.

Research on retrospective recall indicates that

When completing the written report following an assessment,the psychologist ought to be mindful of

In preparing an assessment report focused on treatment planning the psychologist should take into account:

The premise of a case conceptualization is most closely tied to the

In conducting a psychological n assessment of an adult,it is ________ to obtain data from multiple informants than when conducting assessments of youth.

To demonstrate the relationship between accurately detecting patterns within a client's data,O'Brien 1995)presented clinical psychology graduates with a limited but specific data.The results of this study indicated that the students were able to accurately detect related factors

A graduate student in clinical psychology hypothesizes that his/her client suffers from panic disorder.The graduate student asks in-depth questions about this diagnosis,but less detailed questions about other possibilities.By failing to gather information that could refute or temper the strength of this hypothesis,the graduate student is engaging in an):

A psychologist who assumes that a particular pattern of responses on a test is indicative of a specific diagnosis,but does not take into account the probability of both the pattern of test responses and of the diagnosis,s/he is engaging in an)I

When utilizing computer-based interpretations CBIs)for scoring and interpreting assessments,a psychologist ought to

Using data that rely on people to remember events that happened to them at some point in the past is known as:

Smith and Dumont 2002),in their examination of factors leading to overconfidence in clinical decisions,found that one of the key factors that may lead to overconfidence in decisions is the

Research has found that adolescents' retrospective recall poorest for:

When combining information from multiple psychological tests or multiple scales within a particular self-report test,common psychological practice is to begin by

A psychologist who relies on psychological tests that are directly relevant to the assessment task that have strong psychometric qualities and uses normative data and base rate information whenever available,s/he is

When interpreting self-report checklists,psychologists ought to know that