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a) Unconscious intentions.
b) Dreams.
c) Conscious desires.
d) Brain size.
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Rorschach Inkblot Test: A projective personality test using inkblots by dropping ink onto paper and then
folding the paper in half to create a symmetrical image.
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Projective Tests: A group of tests usually consisting of a standard fixed set of stimuli that are presented
to the client, but are ambiguous enough for the client to put their own interpretation on what the
stimuli represent.
d) Good validity.
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IQ (Intelligence Quotient) Tests : Intelligence tests used as a means of estimating intellectual ability.
4) The Weschler adult intelligence scale can be used to assess eligibility for:
a) Housing benefit.
b) Disability allowance.
c) Suicide risk.
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Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS): An intelligence test containing scales that measure vocabulary,
arithmetic ability, digit span, information comprehension, letter-number sequencing, picture completion
ability, reasoning ability, symbol search and object assembly ability in order to assess whether an
individual is eligible for special educational needs.
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Test-Retest Reliability: The extent that a test will produce roughly similar results when the test is given
to the same person several weeks or even months apart (as long as no treatments or interventions have
occurred in between).
c) The degree to which two clinicians will agree on interpretation or scoring of a test.
d) The degree to which the items in the test relate to each other.
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Inter-Rater Reliability: The degree to which two independent clinicians will actually agree when
interpreting or scoring a particular test.
d) The notion that scores on a test correlate highly with scores from tests that measure the
same attribute.
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Concurrent Validity: A measure of how highly correlated scores of one test are with scores from other
types of assessment that we know also measure that attribute.
c) The notion that an assessment method may appear to be valid simply because it has
questions which intuitively seem relevant to the trait or characteristic being measured.
d) A construct is a hypothetical or inferred attribute that may not be directly observable or
directly measurable
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Face Validity: The idea that a particular assessment method may appear to be valid simply because it has
questions which intuitively seem relevant to the trait or characteristic being measured
a) The notion that scores on a test correlate highly with scores from tests that measure the
same attribute.
c) The degree to which the items in the test consistently relate to each other.
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Construct Validity: Independent evidence showing that a measure of a construct is related to other
similar measures.
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Case Formulation: The use of clinical information to draw up a psychological explanation of the client's
problems and to develop a plan for therapy.
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Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE): A structured test that takes 10 minutes to administer and can
provide reliable information.
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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI): A development of MRI technology which allows the
clinician to take brain images so quickly that tiny changes in brain metabolism can be detected and can
provide minute-to-minute information about actual brain activity.
Positron Emission Tomography (PET): A neuroimaging technique which scans to allow measurement of
both brain structure and function by utilizing radiation emitted from the participant to develop images.
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Computerised Axial Tomography (CAT): A neuroimaging technique which uses sophisticated versions of
X-ray machines and can be used to form a three dimensional picture of the brain.
a) Encephalogram.
d) Egoenergy galvoscope.
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16) The Adult Memory and Information Processing Battery is designed to test:
a) Neurological impairment.
b) Memory function.
c) IQ.
d) Physiological function.
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Adult Memory and Information Processing Battery (AMIPB): A neuropsychological test in wide use in the
UK, comprising two tests of speed of information processing, verbal memory tests (list learning and
story recall), and visual memory tests (design learning and figure recall).
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Analogue Observations: Clinical observations carried out in a controlled environment that allows
surreptitious observation of the client.
a) Concurrent validity.
b) Inter-rater reliability.
d) Internal consistency.
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Cronbach's α: A statistical test which will indicate whether any individual item in an assessment test is
significantly reducing the internal consistency of the test.
a) Mobile phones.
c) IPods.
d) MP3 players.
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Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA): The use of diaries for self-observation or self-monitoring,
perhaps by using an electronic diary or a palm-top computer.
a) Brain waves.
b) Emotional response.
c) Heart rate.
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Electrocardiogram (ECG): A psychophysiological measurement technique used for measuring heart rate.
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22) Which of the following is measured by the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery?
a) Psychological functioning.
b) Physiological functioning.
c) Neurological functioning.
d) Emotional functioning.
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a) Mood.
b) Physical concerns.
c) Social attitudes.
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Minnisota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI): The most well-known of the personality
inventories used by clinical psychologists and psychiatrists.
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a) Psychopathology symptoms
b) Intelligence.
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Psychometric Approach: The idea that a psychological test assumes that there are stable underlying
characteristics or traits (e.g. anxiety, depression, compulsiveness, worry, etc.) that exist at different
levels in everyone.
25) Self monitoring is a form of clinical observation involving which of the following?
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Self-Monitoring: A form of clinical observation which involves asking the client to observe and record
their own behaviour, to note when certain behaviours or thoughts occur and in what contexts they
occur.
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Confirmatory Bias: A clinical bias whereby clinicians ignore information that does not support their initial
hypotheses or stereotypes and they interpret ambiguous information as supporting their hypotheses.
a) See where an individual client's score on the test falls in relation to the normal
distribution of scores for that test
b) Use the score on a particular test to estimate whether a client might meet the
diagnostic criteria for a psychological disorder.
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Standardisation: Statistical norms taken from data that have been collected from large numbers of
participants of psychological tests.
28) OCD is NOT thought to play a role in which of the following cognitive constructs?
a) Intolerance of uncertainty
d) Control of thoughts
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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT): A projective personality test consisting of 30 black and white pictures
of people in vague or ambiguous situations.
30) The cardinal DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criterion for Mental Retardation is based primarily on an IQ score:
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM): An American Psychiatric Association handbook for mental
health professionals that lists different categories of mental disorders and the criteria for diagnosing
them.