Psychological Theory and Psychometric Testing Pt. 2

Test 4 Question 43. Your friend had a baby who is now 8 months old. You and she talk about the child and note its temperament. At this point in the child’s development you tell your friend that the child’s temperament is most likely a function of:

Test 4 Question 85. Which one of the following answer choices is measured by the trail-making test?

Test 4 Question 91. Which one of the following tests is considered to be projective?

Test 4 Question 110. A failure to develop a cohesive self-awareness is known as:

Test 4 Question 116. The assisted recall of information by a person in the same external environment in which the information was originally acquired is known as:

Test 4 Question 133. Which one of the following is not an aspect of experiments carried out by Nikolaas Tinbergen?

Test 4 Question 135. Which one of the following is not a rating scale used for mood disorders?

Test 5 Question 35. Which one of the following is considered a mature defense mechanism?

Test 5 Question 89. A patient with depression tells the therapist about a variety of unpleasant personal circumstances that have occurred in the past week, worries about friends being sad and withdrawn, and a reluctance to watch the news on television because “the only news on television is bad news.” In the theory of cognitive psychology, this type of behavior is best formulated as:

Test 5 Question 99. A high score on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) infrequency scale (scale F) is most consistent with which one of the following diagnoses?

Test 5 Question 127. Which of the following famous therapists suggested that empathic failures in the mother lead to developmental arrest in the child at a stage when the child needs others to help perform self-object functions?

Test 6 Question 29. Which of the following tests would be most helpful in trying to understand deficits in a patient with right hemisphere disease?

Test 6 Question 31. All of the following are mature defenses except:

Test 6 Question 99. Which of the following famous psychoanalysts is responsible for the concepts of the “collective unconscious” and “archetypes”?

Test 6 Question 120. In which of the following tests is a patient presented with geometric figures for about 10 seconds and then asked to draw them from memory?

Test 6 Question 121. Which of the following defense mechanisms is considered immature?

Test 6 Question 127. An explanatory statement that links a feeling to its unconscious meaning is known as: