Chapter 9

Question 1

Case Formulation

Answer 1

a description of the patient that provides information on his or her life situation, current problems, and a set of hypotheses linking psychosocial factors with the patient’s clinical condition

Question 2

Retrospective Recall

Answer 2

using data that rely on people to remember events that happened to them at some point in the past

Question 3

Self-serving attributional bias

Answer 3

a tendency to take more personal credit for success than for failures, by attributing success but not failure to internal, stable, and global causes

Question 4

Biases

Answer 4

judgments that are systematically different from what a person should conclude based on logic or probability

Question 5

Heuristics

Answer 5

mental shortcuts that make decision-making easier and faster, but often lead to less accurate decisions

Question 6

Computer-based interpretations (CBIs)

Answer 6

reports generated by computer programs that match a patient’s general pattern of responses on a psychological test to summaries of research evidence about the typical characteristics of people with the same pattern of test responses

Question 7

Therapeutic Model of Assessment

Answer 7

a. approach to psychological assessment in which clients are actively encouraged to participate in discussions about the reasons for the assessment, the result of the testing, and how the assessment data should be integrated and interpreted