psych assessments Flashcards
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Murray’s system of human needs informed the development of which of the following?
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C. EPPS and TAT
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Development of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was based on which of the following?
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C. Jung’s theory of psychological types
3
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A 20-year-old who has received a diagnosis of ADHD would likely obtain the highest score on which of the following WAIS-IV Indexes?
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verbal comprehesion
4
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The Kuder Occupational Interest Survey (KOIS) includes all of the following except:
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A. Personal Styles Scales.
5
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Which of the following provides scores on Holland’s six occupational themes?
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the SII
6
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A two-point code of 4-9 on the MMPI-2 is most associated with which of the following?
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A. impulsivity, antisocial tendencies, and low frustration tolerance
7
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Confabulation on the Rorschach inkblot test is most likely indicative of:
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brain injury
8
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Research has found that individuals with nonverbal learning disability (NVLD) tend to obtain:
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D. significantly higher scores on the WAIS-IV’s VCI than on the PRI.
9
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The Stroop Color Word Test is a measure of:
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B. response inhibition.
10
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When using the Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE) as a screening tool for cognitive impairment in older adults, it’s important to keep in mind that use of the standard cutoff score for African American and Latino patients may result in too many ____________ and that __________ the cutoff score for these individuals reduces this problem.
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A. false positives; lowering
11
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Jung’s personality theory was the basis for which of the following tests?
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A. MBTI
12
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Research has found that:
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D. crystallized intelligence peaks in late adulthood, while fluid intelligence peaks in early to middle adulthood.
13
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A score of 23 or lower on the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) indicates:
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B. cognitive impairment.
14
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The Kuder Occupational Interest Survey (KOIS) includes all of the following except:
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personal styles scales
15
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To evaluate the general intellectual ability of a 26-year-old with limited English proficiency, you would use which of the following?
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raven’s SPM
16
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A patient with a brain injury who is nonagitated but confused and responds to simple, familiar commands but has difficulty retaining new information would most likely receive a __________ rating on the Rancho Scale of Cognitive Functioning Revised.
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Level V
17
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The administration of the SB5 begins with two routing subtests, which are:
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C. object series/matrices and vocabulary.
18
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The General Occupational Themes scale of the Strong Interest Inventory (SII) provides scores on Holland’s six occupational themes, which include all of the following except:
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scientific
19
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Factor Index scores on the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition (SB5) have a mean of _____ and standard deviation of _____.
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100; 15
20
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Which of the following tests is best described as a measure of response inhibition?
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B. Stroop Color-Word Association Test
21
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A person who receives a Level X rating on the revised version of the Rancho Scale of Cognitive Functioning:
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D. is able to independently initiate and complete familiar and unfamiliar tasks but may need extra time or compensatory strategies to do so.
22
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Cattell (1943) used which of the following methods to develop the Sixteen Personality Factor (16PF) Questionnaire?
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lexical
23
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A 21-year-old man is extraverted and talkative and has a history of impulsive and criminal behaviors that began during his pre-adolescent years. He will most likely obtain elevated scores on which of the following MMPI-2 clinical scales?
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D. 4(Pd) and 9(Ma)
24
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You would use Raven’s Coloured Progressive Matrices to assess:
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A. the nonverbal intelligence of a 7-year-old child with limited English skills.
25
A 43-year-old man who has a history of false disability claims and is hoping his current work-related mental disability claim will be accepted is most likely to obtain a _________ on the MMPI-2.
A. low K scale score and high F scale score
26
The Stroop Color and Word Test is most useful for assessing:
D. selective attention and response inhibition in children with ADHD.
27
The WPPSI-IV is appropriate for examinees ages:
2:6 to 7:7
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Theo, age 35, lost sensory and motor functioning in his left hand after being in a car accident that killed his best friend. His physician has found no medical explanation for Theo’s symptoms. On the MMPI-2, Theo is most likely to obtain which of the following?
A. elevated scores on scales 1 and 3 with a lower score on scale 2
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The F scale of the MMPI provides information on:
D. overreporting of psychological symptoms.
30
Poor performance on the Stroop Word and Color Test or the Tower of London Test is most suggestive of damage to the area of the brain that mediates:
B. executive functions.
31
Which of the following is a culture-reduced measure of fluid intelligence?
B. Raven’s Progressive Matrices
32
Development of which of the following was based on the assumption that planning, attention, simultaneous processing, and sequential processing are the essential elements of intellectual functioning?
C. Cognitive Assessment System
33
Which of the following tests is useful for assessing children 3 to 10 years of age who have sensory, motor, or speech deficits and was originally developed for children with cerebral palsy?
C. Columbia Mental Maturity Scale
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Which of the following personality tests provides scores on the “Big Five” personality traits?
C. NEO-PI-3
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When an occupational interest test provides ipsative scores, this means that an examinee’s scores indicate:
C. the relative strength of each occupational interest assessed by the test.
36
The Wechsler Memory Scale, 4th Edition (WMS-IV) provides five index scores that include all of the following except:
B. recognition memory.
37
When administering the Bender-Gestalt II to a 72-year-old man who has just received a diagnosis of mild neurocognitive disorder due to Alzheimer’s disease, you will first ask the man to:
C. copy geometric designs depicted in a set of cards.
38
Which of the following tests would be most useful for confirming a diagnosis of intellectual disability?
A. Vineland-3
39
To evaluate the general mental ability of job applicants to assist with hiring decisions, you would use which of the following?
B. WPT-R
40
Which subtests make up the Processing Speed Index of the WAIS-IV?
D. Symbol Search and Coding
41
According to Flanagan and Alfonso (2017), which of the following WISC-V’s primary subtests assesses both crystallized and fluid intelligence?
similarities
42
A 10-year-old child who has received a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder with language impairment will most likely receive the highest score on the WISC-V’s ________ Index and lowest score on the ________ Index.
A. Fluid Reasoning; Processing Speed
43
Which of the following evaluates the selective attention and recognition memory of infants three to 12 months of age?
B. Fagan Test
44
The three-point code known as the psychotic valley consists of which of the following?
B. elevated scores on scales 6 and 8 with a lower score on scale 7
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Interest inventories are least useful for predicting which of the following?
C. job performance
46
A psychologist interviews 28-year-old Jack who was recently incarcerated. Jack is forthcoming during the interview and is willing to disclose the behaviors that led to his incarceration and other problematic behaviors, and he seems to have previously undiagnosed psychopathology. On the MMPI-2, Jack is most likely to obtain which of the following?
B. high F and low VRIN scale scores
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The ________ is a nonverbal measure of fluid intelligence that provides information on attention, memory, visualization, and reasoning.
B. Leiter-3
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The Kuder Occupational Interest Inventory (KOIS) provides ipsative scores, which means that scores indicate:
C. the relative strength an examinee’s interests.
49
Which of the following would be useful for assessing the intelligence of a 26-year-old who has limited English proficiency?
D. Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices
50
You would use which of the following tests to evaluate the receptive vocabulary of a 10-year-old child who has received a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder?
A. PPVT-5
51
A person who is at Level X on the revised version of the Rancho Scale of Cognitive Functioning:
D. is alert and oriented and can usually function independently but may need extra time or compensatory strategies.
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The Technical and Interpretive Manual for the WAIS-IV reports the results of several factor analyses that support the test’s underlying ________ structure.
C. four-factor
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A score of _____ on the Halstead Impairment Index indicates severe impairment.
.9
54
The research has found that child custody litigants often respond to MMPI-2 items in a defensive way that’s indicated by:
C. higher than normal scores on the L and K scales and a lower score on the F scale.
55
A score ___ on the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) indicates normal functioning:
above 24
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The Bender-Gestalt II is a measure of visual-motor integration that’s also used as a:
A. screening test for brain damage.
57
Which of the following uses eye opening, verbal, and motor responses to stimuli to evaluate a patient’s level of consciousness?
D. Glasgow Coma Scale
58
A meta-analysis of research conducted by D’Iorio and colleagues (2017) compared the self-ratings and informant-ratings of the personality characteristics of individuals with and without Alzheimer’s disease. The results indicated that, for both ratings, individuals with Alzheimer’s disease were rated as having significantly:
A. higher levels of neuroticism and lower levels of openness and extraversion.
59
The WAIS-IV General Ability Index (GAI) score can be used to obtain a measure of an examinee’s intelligence that minimizes the effects of:
A. working memory and processing speed.
60
Which of the following provides global scores that correspond to two theoretical models – the Cattell-Horn-Carroll model of cognitive abilities and the Luria neuropsychological processing model?
A. Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, Second Edition
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The results of which of the following can be interpreted using the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) model of cognitive abilities?
KABC-II
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The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition (SB5) provides scores on five cognitive factors. Which of the following is not one of those factors?
abstract reasoning
63
Items selected for inclusion in each Occupational Scale of the Strong Interest Inventory:
B. distinguished between individuals employed in the occupation assessed by the scale and individuals in a general representative sample.
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A 68-year-old woman recently received a diagnosis of mild neurocognitive disorder due to Alzheimer’s disease. Most likely she will receive the highest score on the WAIS-IV’s __________ Index and lowest score on the __________ Index.
VC; PS
65
The items selected for inclusion in the __________ assess 15 manifest needs that were identified by Henry Murray.
EPPS
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To confirm a diagnosis of intellectual disability for a nine-year-old child, you would administer the SB5 or other measure of intelligence along with which of the following?
Vineland-3
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The ____________ is based on the Cattell-Horn-Carroll model of cognitive abilities and provides scores on five factors derived from that model: knowledge, fluid reasoning, quantitative reasoning, visual-spatial processing, and working memory.
SB5
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When scoring and interpreting the Rorschach test, form quality provides information on which of the following?
B. the extent to which the examinee’s response matches the stimulus properties of the inkblot
69
You would use which of the following to assess the cognitive abilities of a non-English speaking 21-year-old?
Leiter-3
70
The Flynn effect refers to:
A. generational increases in IQ scores in the last century.
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The Dot Counting Test (DCT) is most useful:
B. for detecting feigned cognitive impairment.
72
Empirical criterion keying was used in the development of which of the following Strong Interest Inventory scales?
B. Occupational Scales
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Which of the following acronyms is useful for remembering the names of the Big Five personality traits?
OCEAN
74
The “classic aging pattern” on measures of IQ refers to:
B. the tendency of scores on verbal tests to hold up fairly well with increasing age while scores on performance tests do not.
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An advantage of computerized adaptive tests is that they:
C. reduce testing time without losing precision of measurement.
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An advantage of computerized adaptive tests is that they:
C. reduce testing time without losing precision of measurement.
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Confabulation on the Rorschach occurs when a patient overgeneralizes from a part of an inkblot to the whole inkblot and is associated with which of the following?
brain injury
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The WAIS-IV’s Global Ability Index (GAI) is based on subtests for which of the following Indexes?
B. Verbal Comprehension and Perceptual Reasoning
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The manifest needs identified by Henry Murray are assessed by which of the following?
EPPS
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An adult with traumatic brain injury is most likely to obtain the highest score on the _______ Index of the WAIS-IV.
VC
81
The court’s ruling in the 1979 case of Larry P. v. Wilson Riles:
B. prohibited schools from using IQ tests to place African American children in special education classes.
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Research has found that interest inventories are least predictive of which of the following?
job performance
83
To assess the problem-solving and planning abilities of a 10-year-old child who has symptoms of autism spectrum disorder, you would use which of the following?
tower of london
84
The Wonderlic Personnel Test-Revised is a measure of:
A. general mental ability.
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Research on the Fagan Test of Intelligence has confirmed that ____________ in infancy is a good predictor of IQ in childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood.
D. selective attention to novel stimuli
86
Research has found that individuals with nonverbal learning disability (NVLD) tend to obtain:
D. significantly higher scores on the WAIS-IV’s VCI than on the PRI.
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Evidence for the five-factor model of personality has been provided by research using the __________ method.
lexical
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In the context of psychological assessment, the terms “floor” and “ceiling” refer to:
C. the degree to which a test can discriminate among examinees who have very low levels or very high levels of the characteristic measured by the test.
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When administering the Rorschach, the purpose of the inquiry phase is to:
C. obtain the information needed to accurately code the examinee’s responses.
90
The __________ is a measure of receptive vocabulary that can be used with children, adolescents, and adults who have motor or speech impairments.
PPVT-5
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The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition (SB5) provides scores on all of the following factors except:
C. Abstract Reasoning.
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When an examinee’s scores on the L, F, and K scales of the MMPI-2 assume a V-shape with a low score on the F scale and high scores on the L and K scales, this suggests which of the following?
A. The examinee attempted to make a favorable impression.
93
An Impairment Index score of _____ or above on the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery (HRNB) is usually indicative of brain damage.
.4 to .5
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Scoring the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) involves considering the hero’s:
needs and press
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Patients with damage to which of the following can be expected to make multiple random errors and perseverative errors on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test?
frontal lobe
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On the MMPI-2, which of the following is suggested by a combination of elevated scores on scales 1 (Hs) and 3 (Hy) and a low score on scale 2 (D)?
C. somatization of psychological problems
97
Providing adults with training on a demanding working memory task is likely to:
C. improve their fluid intelligence even when the working memory task is not similar in format to the fluid intelligence task.
98
Age-related changes in fluid intelligence have been linked to changes in processing speed and:
working memory
99
The Boston Process Approach:
C. emphasizes observing a patient’s problem-solving activity to determine how, when, and why the patient is unable to solve problems.
100
Empirical criterion keying was used to develop the clinical scales of the MMPI-2. This involved including items in the scales that:
A. distinguished between clinical groups and a general (nonclinical) group.
101
The WAIS-IV is appropriate for individuals ________ years of age.
16 through 90
102
Siegel and Langford (1998) compared the MMPI-2 L, K, and F scale scores of two groups of mothers undergoing child custody evaluations. They found that, when compared to mothers who were not exhibiting parental alienation syndrome (PAS), mothers exhibiting PAS were more likely to obtain:
A. significantly higher L and K scale scores and significantly lower F scale scores.
103
The subtests of the WAIS-IV have a mean of ___ and standard deviation of ___.
10; 3
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The MMPI-2’s _____ scale consists of infrequently endorsed items.
FB
105
A measure of fluid intelligence would include items that assess all of the following except:
numerical reasoning
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Which of the following is NOT one of the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey (KOIS) scales?
personal styles scales
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____________ was used to develop the Occupational Scales of the Strong Interest Inventory, which means that items included in the scale distinguished between people in the different occupational groups and “people-in-general.”
C. Empirical criterion keying
108
Older adults with mild neurocognitive disorder due to Alzheimer’s disease would most likely obtain the highest score on the WAIS-IV __________ Index and lowest score on the __________ Index.
D. Verbal Comprehension; Processing Speed
109
The WISC-V is appropriate for individuals ages:
6.0 to 16.11
110
Which of the following includes subtests that evaluate attention, memory, visualization, and reasoning?
Leiter-3
111
Which of the following SB5 subtests are used to determine the starting point for the other subtests?
B. Object Series/Matrices and Vocabulary
112
The Processing Speed Index of the WAIS-IV consists of which of the following subtests?
B. symbol search, coding, and cancellation
113
The development of which of the following tests was based on Murray’s personality theory?
TAT
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The lexical strategy was used in the development of which of the following tests?
B. 16 PF and NEO-PI-3
