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PSYC406 Final Exam Study Quiz (Ch.8)

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Question 1

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Which of the following is not measured by personality tests?
Answer
  • dynamic motivation
  • symptoms of distress
  • aptitude
  • Spirituality
  • emotional intelligence

Question 2

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What are the two fundamental features of personality?
Answer
  • each person is consistent and distinctive
  • each person is fluid and unique
  • each person is consistent and conforms to a standard of personality
  • each person is fluid and distinctive

Question 3

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Which is the "moral principle" of psychoanalytic theory?
Answer
  • Ego
  • superego
  • id
  • society
  • unconscious

Question 4

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which of the following is not a property of defense mechanisms?
Answer
  • Help ego reduce anxiety created by id and superego conflict
  • operate unconsciously
  • distort inner/outer reality
  • help the id fulfill it's pleasure principle

Question 5

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humor and sublimation are what level of defense mechanism?
Answer
  • they are not defense mechanisms
  • Psychotic
  • obsessive
  • neurotic
  • borderline
  • Mature
  • acting out

Question 6

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What are the order of defense mechanisms from most extreme to least?
Answer
  • Psychotic, borderline, neurotic, acting out, obsessive, mature
  • Neurotic, psychotic, obsessive, acting out, borderline, mature
  • acting out, psychotic, neurotic, borderline, mature, obsessive
  • psychotic, acting out, borderline, neurotic, obsessive, mature

Question 7

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displacement and repression fall under what category of defense mechanisms?
Answer
  • psychotic
  • neurotic
  • borderline
  • mature
  • acting out

Question 8

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Sally uses humor to mask her unconscious conflicts. Which level of defensive mechanisms does Sally fall under?
Answer
  • Mature
  • Obsessive
  • Psychotic
  • None, Sally is not using any defensive mechanisms
  • Borderline

Question 9

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Bob lives in a shack but tells everyone that he lives in a palace, and appears to truly believe this delusion. He also denies having any sort of problem, psychological or financial. What defensive mechanism is this?
Answer
  • Neurotic
  • Mature
  • Pathological lying
  • Psychotic
  • borderline

Question 10

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Kimmy's mom tells her she should try harder in school, and Kimmy replies "yeah cause I see how well school worked out for you", referring to the fact her mom has to work two minimum wage jobs to make ends meet. Kimmy often makes passive-aggressive comments like this, as well as impulsive decisions. What defense mechanism category does Kimmy fall under?
Answer
  • Shes just a normal teenager, everyone is passive aggressive at that age
  • Acting out
  • Borderline
  • She has borderline personality disorder
  • Oppositional defiant disorder

Question 11

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Altruism is an example of what
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  • a healthy behavior
  • a "mature" defensive mechanism
  • a source trait
  • Rational emotive therapy

Question 12

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Which is a test designed to measure the type, severity of defense mechanisms?
Answer
  • Overall Defensive Functioning (ODF)
  • Defense Mechanism Rating Scale (DMRS)
  • Psychoanalytic Scale of Defense Mechanisms (PSDM)
  • All of the above
  • None of the above

Question 13

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What are the draw-backs of the DMRS?
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  • Much specialized training is required for practitioner
  • Low reliability
  • Time-consuming to collect data
  • None of these, it's a well constructed test
  • self-report biases

Question 14

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Which of the following are type theories of personality?
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  • Type A coronary-prone behavior pattern
  • self-theory (Carl Rogers)
  • social learning theory (Bandura)
  • factor-analytical trait theory (Cattell)
  • Five factor model (Goldberg)
  • Humoral theory (Hippocrates)
  • Eysenck personality questionnaire

Question 15

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Does type A behavior cause coronary heart disease (CHD)?
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  • Yes
  • No
  • Some aspects of Type A are risk factors
  • Type actually reduces risk of CHD

Question 16

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Existentialism contributed to the foundation of what type of personality theories?
Answer
  • Type theories
  • Phenomenological theories
  • behavioral and social learning theories
  • Trait conception theories
  • None of the above
  • two of the above

Question 17

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Which are two people involved with phenomenological theories?
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  • Husserl and Kierkegaard
  • Kieregard and Bandura
  • Bandura and Cattell
  • Goldberg and Husserl
  • Comrey and Cattell

Question 18

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who was the MOST influential phenomenological theorist (according to the text)
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  • Husserl
  • Bandura
  • Penfield
  • Carl Rogers
  • Myers-Briggs

Question 19

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This test involves sorting cards with things like "I am poised" into piles from "Least like me" to "Most like me" (9 piles total). It is meant to measure self-concept and is a test related to self-theory (Carl Rogers). The card stacks can be instructed to be produced as a "self-sort" or as the examinee's "Ideal sort". Which test is this?
Answer
  • Wisconsin Card sorting task
  • Q-technique
  • Self-concept card task
  • Phenomenological test of self
  • None of the above
  • A test does not exist that fits these parameters

Question 20

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The I-E scale measures....
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  • Introversion-extroversion
  • Internal versus external locus of control
  • Idealism and pessimism
  • Emotional intelligence

Question 21

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Which are true?
Answer
  • Social learning theorists and behavioral theorists believe cognition is important for behavior
  • Social learning theorists believe cognition is important for behavior
  • behavioral theorists believe cognition is important for behavior
  • behavioral theorists believe cognition is not important for behavior
  • Social learning theorists believe cognition is not important for behavior
  • neither social learning theorists OR behavioral theorists believe cognition is important for behavior

Question 22

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The Classroom Questionnaire is designed to measure what:
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  • Emotional intelligence
  • Ability to look after children with mental illnesses in a school setting
  • Self-efficacy
  • the interactions between students and teachers through direct observation
  • student personality changes over time

Question 23

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What is a measure of self-efficacy?
Answer
  • Bandura's Self-efficacy test
  • Classroom questionnaire
  • Q-technique
  • Thematic apperception test (TAT)
  • Personality research form (PRF)

Question 24

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"I hate getting stuck behind a slow driver". This question in a Yes/No format would give tester's information about what sort of trait?
Answer
  • Source trait
  • Surface trait
  • Deep trait
  • Personality trait
  • Impatience

Question 25

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Cattell designed what theory?
Answer
  • Factor-analytic trait theory
  • Self-theory
  • humoral theory
  • Cattell personality theory
  • Fundamental lexical hypothesis

Question 26

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Goldberg's five factor model of personality includes:
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  • Extroversion
  • Openness
  • Intuition
  • Excitability
  • agreeableness
  • conscientiousness
  • neuroticim
  • Charisma
  • attitude

Question 27

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The five factor model is based on the fundamental lexical hypothesis. True/false?
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  • True
  • False
  • Causally related

Question 28

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What is TRUE about the Five factor Model of Personality
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  • It captures individual difference related to basic functions of survival and reproductive success
  • it is based on the fundamental lexical hypothesis
  • It is based on the idea that trait terms have survived in language because they convey important information about our dealings with others
  • The NEO-PI-R and shorter version the NEO-FFI are both personality tests which are based on the Five Factor model
  • OCEAN is the acronym commonly used to remember the 5 factors

Question 29

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Which are ISSUES with trait approaches to personality?
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  • Debate whether traits cause behaviour or merely describe it
  • low predictive validity
  • There are too many traits to separate out into factors
  • People are all too different to classify

Question 30

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Personality coefficient describes the low correlations between people's scores on a trait and their behaviours. True or false?
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 31

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Projective testing involves presenting examinee with vague/ambiguous stimuli in order to reveal inner aspects of personality, and are commonly based on _____________.
Answer
  • CBT
  • Freudian theory
  • Psychoanalytic theory
  • Behavioral techniques

Question 32

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Which are techniques of projective personality tests?
Answer
  • Word association
  • Inkblot
  • Expression with drawing/playing
  • picture arrangement
  • story completion
  • sentence completion
  • dream analysis

Question 33

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What is the preferred scoring system for the rorschach inkblot test?
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  • Rorschach Preformance assessment system (R-PAS)
  • Two of these are very commonly used
  • The Rorschach system
  • The Comprehensive system
  • All of these are commonly used

Question 34

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The R-PAS improved on the CS in many ways. Which of the below is NOT one of these improvements
Answer
  • evidence based selection of scoring variables
  • detailed guidelines for administration
  • methods to optimize number of responses
  • normative reference values for international samples
  • tables for conventionality and accuracy
  • Inexpensive scoring (web-based)
  • reduced the number of inkblots used from 10 to 5
  • easy to read graphs
  • translated into many languages

Question 35

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The Roschach can be useful in determining if psychotherapy would be beneficial to a client. True/false.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 36

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Which of the following in not a projective test?
Answer
  • House-tree-person test (HTP)
  • Draw-a-person test (DAP)
  • Rotter incomplete sentances blank (RISB)
  • Rorschach inkblot test
  • Thematic apperception test (TAT)
  • Millon Clinical multiaxial inventory-III (MCMI-III)
  • Pleasant Events Scale (PES)
  • Two of the above

Question 37

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What is the Thought Disorder Index?
Answer
  • Measure of Delusional Disorder
  • Scoring method for the Rorschach test
  • A scale measuring propensity towards eating disorders
  • A test given to measure the severity of "Borderline" level defense mechanisms
  • None of the above

Question 38

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In a study by Albert, Fox and Khan it was found that informed Schizophrenia fakers were diagnosed by the Rorschach 72% of the time, whereas actual Schizophrenics only achieved diagnosis 48% of the time. Was this a real study?
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 39

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What are controversies/negatives about the use of the Rorschach?
Answer
  • Fakers
  • Low reliability
  • lack of predictive validity
  • learning and scoring system is arduous
  • Administration is time consuming

Question 40

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What is UNTRUE about the Rotter Incomplete Sentance Blank (RISB)?
Answer
  • It is a projective test
  • It involves sentence completion
  • It has three forms (Highschool, college, adult)
  • it measures conflict/positive/neutral responses
  • High reliability
  • Quick and efficient
  • There is possibility of self-report bias
  • it produces single score which may not capture the subtleties of personality
  • All of these are true (If this is the case ONLY select this option)
  • None of these are true (if this is the case ONLY select this option)

Question 41

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Which of the following are TRUE about the Thematic apperception test (TAT)?
Answer
  • Contains 30 pictures with one card being blank
  • asks examinee's to make up dramatic story about each picture
  • low test-retest reliability (ACC)
  • CAT is the adaptation of TAT meant for kids
  • Has abundant scoring and interpretation methods
  • Origionally designed to test needs outlined in Murray's personality theory
  • TAT has proved helpful in understanding those with ageneis of the corpus callosum (ACC)
  • The TAT has not received much use in research

Question 42

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Which of the following are FALSE about the Picture Projective Test (PPT)
Answer
  • It is a projective test
  • An improvement on the TAT
  • Uses pictures taken from "Family of Man" photoessay, containing meaningful projective images
  • PTT stories have a greater emphasis on interpersonal themes than TAT
  • PTT is superior to TAT in differentiating psychotics from normal and depressives
  • The PTT and TAT are equal in ability to differentiate normal from depressives
  • The PTT contains a majority of gloomy, dark, negitive scenes in the pictures
  • All of these are true about the PTT (If so, ONLY select this option)

Question 43

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Which of the following is NOT a test derived from the TAT for specific populations?
Answer
  • Family Apperception test
  • Blacky pictures
  • Diverse nationalities Apperception test (DNAT)
  • Michigan picture test revised
  • Senior apperception test
  • TEMAS

Question 44

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TEMAS is the spanish version of the TAT, made for kids. The main issue with it is it's low reliability. This is a concern because reliability is necessary for validity. True/False?
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 45

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What is TRUE about the Draw-a-person test (DAP)?
Answer
  • It's like Goodenough's Draw-a-man test of intelligence
  • it's an expression measuring projective test
  • Examinee is asked to draw a person and then draw another person of the opposite sex, then make up a story about them
  • clinical-intuitive interpretation is made
  • This is used to screen children suspected of behaviour disorder and disturbance
  • Drawing a man with large eyes and eyelashes is supposed to indicate a homosexuality inclined male
  • The DAP:SPED is a derivative of this test

Question 46

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The House-tree-person test (HTP) is an example of a projective test. Which of the below are FALSE about it?
Answer
  • Can be effectively used as an intelligence test for kids
  • House drawing mirrors home life, tree infers environment experience, and person infers interpersonal relationships
  • Involves freehand drawing a person, tree and house
  • The HTP is a good measure of personality

Question 47

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What was true about the case study where a soldier shot himself in the foot and was unable to return to duty?
Answer
  • He was diagnosed with a projective test
  • He was found to be a war criminal upset that he could no longer go to war and shoot at people
  • He was found to be schizophrenic
  • He shot himself in the foot because he was depressed and wanted to die
  • Two of the above are TRUE
  • All of the above are TRUE
  • Three of the above are TRUE

Question 48

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Which of the following is not a Theory-guided inventory?
Answer
  • Personality research form (PRF)
  • State-trait anxiety inventory (STAI)
  • Eysenck personality questionnaire (EPQ)
  • Two of the above

Question 49

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Which TWO are based on Murray's theory of Manifest Needs?
Answer
  • TAT
  • Rorscharch
  • Beck Depression inventory
  • Personality Research Form
  • Only ONE of the TWO is listed. (Select this option AND the one correct)

Question 50

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Which is TRUE about the Personality Research Form (PRF)?
Answer
  • T/F inventory
  • Produces 20 personality scales and 2 validity scores
  • good internal consistency
  • based on manifest needs
  • it's a factor-analytically derived inventory
  • It's a projective test just like TAT

Question 51

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What does the State-trait anxiety inventory measure?
Answer
  • It differentiates between temporary state anxiety and long standing anxiety
  • It is used to clinically diagnose those with anxiety
  • It allows practitioners to follow patients as their temporary anxiety transitions into permanent anxiety
  • It's a structured clinical interview meant to measure anxiety

Question 52

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What are the three dimensions measured by the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ)?
Answer
  • Psychoticism, extroversion, neurotisicm
  • extroversion, neurotisicm, openness
  • Conscientiousness, neuroticism, compassion
  • Extroversion/introversion, neuroticsm/sanity, Psychosis/normalcy

Question 53

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What type of test is the Comrey personality scales (CPS)?
Answer
  • Exposure-based
  • Factor-analytically keyed
  • criterion-keyed
  • self-monitoring
  • Theory guided

Question 54

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Which one of these is not a criterion-keyed inventory?
Answer
  • Minnesota multphasic personality inventory-2 (MMPI-2)
  • Personality inventory for children-2 (PIC2)
  • Beck depression Inventory (BDI)
  • Millon Clinical Multiaxial inventory-III (MCMI-III)

Question 55

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What is TRUE of the MMPI-2?
Answer
  • Contains over 500 T/F questions
  • The MMPI control group was narrow and item content was sexist/obsolete so the test was revised to the MMPI-II
  • 4 validity scales, and 10 clinical scales
  • Good reliability
  • There is overlap between some scales and it is lengthy to administer
  • L scale is items scored in wrong direction to identify deliberate test-taking attitude. The F scale is meant to signify psychiatric pathology, but are rarely selected so usually "cry for help". K scale detects defensiveness. "Cannot say" validity scale also exists
  • can be scored scale-by- scale or configural (typed)

Question 56

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Advantages of MCMI-III over MMPI-2?
Answer
  • Much shorter
  • compatible with DSM-IV
  • higher validity
  • Two of the above
  • All of the above

Question 57

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What is TRUE about the Personality Inventory for Children - 2 (PIC-2)?
Answer
  • Child does the questionnaire, and there is a m=complimentary one for the parents/teacher
  • Reliability and validity are poor
  • assesses social skill deficits, family dysfunction, delinquency, impulsivity, cognitive impairment
  • It is a exposure based method

Question 58

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Which of the following are behavior assessments?
Answer
  • Exposure based
  • Cognitive behaviour therapies
  • Self-monitoring
  • direct systematic observation

Question 59

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The Behaviour avoidance test (BAT) is a type of Exposure-based assessment meant to see how long a client can tolerate anxiety-inducing stimuli. It is used to evaluate fears and phobias and has a strong correlation with self-reported catastrophic thought measures. True/false?
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 60

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Name the exposure-based therapies
Answer
  • Rational emotive therapy (RET) and pleasant events scale (PES)
  • Behavioural avoidance test (BAT) and fear survey schedule (FSS)
  • Cattell's behavioural avoidance test (CBAT) and fear survey schedule (FSS)
  • None of the above are BOTH exposure based therapies

Question 61

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The Rational emotive therapy (RET) and Beck depression inventory (BDI) are both examples of _______ therapies.
Answer
  • Exposure-based
  • self-monitoring
  • cognitive behaviour
  • criterion keyed

Question 62

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Self-monitoring produces are a type of behavioural assessment where the patient ________________.
Answer
  • writes a list of everything they do each day for their clinician to evaluate
  • is observed directly in their daily activities
  • actively participates in therapy to meet their goals
  • wears a beeper that goes off when the patient must record how they are feeling at that time.

Question 63

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The Pleasant Event schedule (PES) involves:
Answer
  • Rating each events pleasantness and eliminating those that are negative entirely
  • Both of these answers are correct
  • The patient identifying which events make them happiest thought out the day and integrating them into their daily routine more

Question 64

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In what situations is direct systematic observation useful?
Answer
  • children evaluation in school systems
  • When there is a lot of children at once to observe
  • When people must be observed for long periods of time

Question 65

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What is analogue behavioral assessment?
Answer
  • When you tell a patient to preform a behavior and then observe them
  • Clients observed in plausible but manufactured setting to elicit behaviors of interest
  • An example would be following a patient throughout their day and observing behaviour in natural setting
  • All of the above

Question 66

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Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is different from Direct systematic assessment. What does EMA involve?
Answer
  • It's like direct systematic assessment but with patients in novel environments
  • The real-time measurement of patient experience in real world at the point of experience so results not affected by recall bias
  • It is a single momentary assessment of behaviour done of 10min period every day for 2 weeks
  • Two of the above are true
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