Which kind of assessment is illustrated here? Dr. Lee assesses the possibility that Joe has brain damage by measuring Joe's performance on a number of tasks including copying symbols, remembering numbers, and recognizing nonsense syllables.
a) physiological assessment
b) neurological assessment
c) psychological assessment
d) neuropsychological assessment
Question 2What is the main target of Ladouceur and his colleagues' (1998 ) exclusively cognitive treatment for gambling?
a) Superstitious behaviours
b) The sense of controllability
c) Misperceptions about randomness
d) All of the above
Question 3Penny was not terribly popular in elementary school. As an adult, she is:
a) Likely to be well-adjusted
b) Likely to have an eating disorder
c) Likely to experience depression
d) Likely to be a drug addict
Question 4Depressive cognitive biases, according to the cognitive theory of depression, are
a) pessimistic global views of self, world, and future.
b) negative beliefs about how things work in the world.
c) negative schemata triggered by negative life events.
d) distorted ways of reaching conclusions about events.
Question 5Relaxing the diagnostic criteria for GAD would likely result in:
a) Little change in diagnostic rates, as there is already high prevalence
b) Little change in diagnostic rates, as there is a bimodal distribution of subclinical and clinical GAD.
c) Doubling the rate of people diagnosed with the disorder
d) It's impossible to predict as there is not good data on people with subclinical GAD
Question 6Fat talk and body mass index (BMI) are related in that:
a) As BMI increases, so does fat talk
b) As BMI decreases, so does fat talk
c) As BMI increases, fat talk decreases
d) There is no relationship between BMI and fat talk