Exam 4: Assessment and Classification of Psychological Disorders

The TAT is a projective test.

The work of which of the following psychologists had a significant influence on the development of projective tests?

The DSM-5 specifies preferred treatments for each of the disorders it describes.

Which neuropsychological test is particularly difficult for individuals with frontal lobe damage?

Explain how what is known about the brain bases of memory and reward enhance psychopathologists' understanding of mental illness. How do these neuroscientific insights encourage a dimensional approach to psychopathology, rather than the traditional categorical one?

The ______ is used in North America while the ______ is mainly used in Europe.

Ricky has given up looking for work he enjoys. He now wishes only to collect a disability check each month. When he visits a psychologist for a state-mandated evaluation, he may fake bad and score highly on the MMPI-2's ______ scale, also called the ______ scale.

A college student visits a clinician and states that he experiences several of the symptoms of ADHD. Because the medication typically prescribed to treat ADHD is highly controlled, the clinician must support the diagnosis with reliable, valid assessment. She is MOST likely to administer the ______ to the student.

The mental status exam is BEST described as a(n) ______.

A pattern of repetitive, uncontrollable thoughts is called a(n) ______.

Dr. Voorhies is interviewing a client so that he may gather the information necessary make a clinical decision regarding the client's symptoms. Dr. Voorhies is BEST described as engaged in ______.

Which of the following describes a large overall change between the DSM-IV and DSM-5?

Inkblots compose the ______, whereas pictures compose the ______.

The ______ Inventory is a 21-item instrument used in clinical and research settings to assess symptoms of depression.

Using an assessment instrument in different cultures provides information that is MOST relevant to the evaluation of the instrument's ______ validity.

Which of the following is NOT an item category on the MMPI-2's clinical scale?

An individual who is faking good, or trying to appear nondisordered, is likely to score highly on the MMPI's ______ scale.

Advances in neuroscience encourage a dimensional approach to psychopathology.

Making an analogy between Freudian theory and the brain networks described in an earlier chapter in the text, primary process thinking is to secondary process thinking as the ______ network is to the ______ network.

The National Institute of Mental Health supports using a(n) ______ approach to psychopathology.