Clinical Psychology Quiz | Clinical Psychology Objective Type Questions and Answers
Questions
21
The current edition of the DSM contains “proposed criteria sets.” These sets are
Answer: descriptions of proposed disorders that may become official disorders in a future DSM
22
_____ is a proposed criteria set in the current DSM that involves cutting, burning, or otherwise intentionally hurting one’s own body without the intent to kill oneself.
Answer: Nonsuicidal self-injury
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23
June believes there is one general intelligence that overlaps with many abilities. Which of the following theorists is most likely to agree with June?
Answer: Charles Spearman
24
In the early 1900s, _____ created a test of intelligence to help the French school system determine if students should qualify for special services.
Answer: Alfred Binet
26
The Rorschach Inkblot Method is best identified as
Answer: a projective personality test.
27
_____ tests assume that people reveal their personalities by their responses to ambiguous stimuli, while _____ tests offer straightforward scoring and interpretation guidelines and are often in multiple-choice or true-false format.
Answer: Projective personality, objective personality
28
The _____ has patients tell stories in response to cards that depict interpersonal scenes.
Answer: Thematic Apperception Test
29
_____ are the authors of the TAT.
Answer: Christiana Morgan and Henry Murray
31
Psychotherapy began to play a significant role in the history of clinical psychology around _____.
Answer: 1940–1950
32
Which approach to psychotherapy that arose in the 20th century emphasized empirical methodology and the study and treatment of measurable, observable symptoms?
Answer: Behavioral
33
Currently, the most popular singular psychotherapy orientation among clinical psychologists is the _________ orientation.
Answer: cognitive
34
Clinical psychology’s major contribution to World War I was
Answer: the creation of tests to measure the intelligence of recruits
36
Which of the following assessment methods was created most recently?
Answer: NEO-PI-R
37
At the 1896 convention of the American Psychological Association, when Lightner Witmer encouraged his colleagues to “throw light upon the problems that confront humanity,” he meant that they should
Answer: open psychological clinics.
38
_____, more than any other activity, characterized clinical psychology during the earliest years of the profession.
Answer: Assessment of intelligence
39
From roughly 1900 to 1950, the treatment of mental illness
Answer: was conducted primarily by physicians.
40
The result of the Boulder conference was an agreement among clinical psychology training directors that
Answer: both practice and research were important parts of PhD clinical psychology training.
