Clinical Psychology MCQs
Clinical Psychology MCQs
Try to answer these 60+ Clinical Psychology MCQs and check your understanding of the Clinical Psychology subject. Scroll down and let's begin!
1: A mental status exam covers all of the following categories except ___________.
A. Classification
B. Physical symptoms
C. Reliable
D. Of the same age
2: In behavior therapy, _____ techniques use shaping and reinforcement to increase adaptive behaviors.
A. Operant conditioning
B. Systematic desensitization
C. Cognitive therapy
D. None of these
3: A(n) _____ approach to therapy combines and integrates multiple perspectives.
A. Eclectic
B. Cost-effective
C. Psychiatrist
D. Humanistic
4: An advantage to group therapy is that groups ________.
A. Are a source of social support.
B. Allow countertransference to occur.
C. Provide unconditional approval to the group members.
D. Allow an extremely shy person to feel more comfortable speaking up
5: With ________, the therapist replaces a fearful response with a relaxation response.
A. Systematic desensitization
B. Free association
C. Aversive conditioning
D. Transference
E. Meta-analysis
6: Interpretation in psychoanalysis _____.
A. All of the above are myths
B. Arriving late or canceling an appointment
C. Drug therapy
D. All of these options
7: All of the following play a role in maintaining resting membrane potential except_______.
A. The opening of voltage-gated sodium channels
B. It makes the inside of the neurons more negative
C. It will make the inside of the neurons more negative and he will rapidly lose consciousness.
D. None of these
8: There are more than _____ forms of therapy currently practiced in the clinical field today.
A. 400
B. 200
C. 450
D. 100
9: _____ is a condition in which exposure to one sensation evokes an additional one.
A. Hyperthesia
B. Polythesia
C. Synesthesia
D. Multithesia
10: __________ memory refers to how many items you are able to understand and remember at one time.
A. Episodic
B. Procedural
C. Semantic
D. Short-term
11: A person is most likely to store a seven-digit phone number in his or her _____ memory.
A. Echoic
B. Working
C. Short-term
D. Sensory
12: Behaviorists argued that ________ were most important in analyzing behavior.
A. Expectations
B. Wishes
C. Beliefs
D. Learning histories
13: Cones and rods are to vision as ________ are to audition.
A. Eardrums
B. Cochleas
C. Oval windows
D. Hair cells
E. Semicircular canals
14: Cramming is another term for _____, which is an inefficient form of studying.
A. Massed practice
B. Eardrums
C. Cochleas
D. Oval windows
E. Hair cells
15: Declarative memories are to ________ memories as procedural memories are to ________ memories.
A. Explicit;implict
B. Implict; explicit
C. Implict; explicit
D. Explicit;explicit
16: Emotional intelligence has two components: _____ and _____
A. Empathy; intuition.
B. Management; recognition.
C. Personal; interpersonal
17: High-frequency sound waves are to ______ as low-frequency sound waves are to ______.
A. A high-pitched voice; a low-pitched voice
B. Explicit memory; implicit memory
C. Explicit;implict
D. Implict; explicit
18: Hormones _____ memory.
A. Can either improve or impair
B. Explicit memory; implicit memory
C. Explicit;implict
D. Implict; explicit
19: If one wanted to use the best method to get storage into long-term memory, one would use ________.
A. Elaborative rehearsal
B. Explicit and declarative
C. Semantic and episodic
D. Implicit and nondeclarative
20: Important to long-term memory is _____.
A. Explicit and declarative
B. Semantic and episodic
C. Implicit and nondeclarative
D. Explicit and implicit
21: In answering this exam question, you are engaged in a(n) ________ memory task.
A. Recognition
B. Procedural
C. Episodic
D. Recall
22: In memory, as time passes between learning and recall, ____.
A. The recency effect weakens, but not the primacy effect
B. Temporary storage of information for conscious use
C. Articulatory suppression
D. The central executive
23: In terms of our sensory experience of light, wavelength is to _____ as wave intensity is to _____.
A. Hue; brightness
B. Imagery; mnemonics
C. Rehearsal; retrieval
D. Retention; acquisition
24: One function of ____ is to pull information out of long-term memory.
A. Sensory memory
B. The phonological loop
C. Articulatory suppression
D. The central executive
25: One function of working memory is _____.
A. Temporary storage of information for conscious use
B. The phonological loop
C. Articulatory suppression
D. The central executive
26: Reaction time refers to the time between the ________ of a stimulus and a person's response to it.
A. Perception
B. Mental awareness
C. Disappearance
D. Presentation
27: Some information in our fleeting ________ is encoded into short-term memory.
A. Sensory memory
B. Broadbent
C. Sperling
D. Loftus
28: Storage is to encoding as ________ is to ________.
A. Recognition; recall
B. Imagery; mnemonics
C. Rehearsal; retrieval
D. Retention; acquisition
E. Priming; relearning
29: The most influential researcher into eyewitness memory has been ________.
A. Broadbent
B. Sperling
C. Loftus
D. Treisman
30: Thinking that produces many alternative ideas is called _____.
A. Divergent
B. Convergent
C. Broadbent
D. Sperling
31: _____________ is the first step toward the creation of a long-term memory.
A. Adaptation
B. Transduction
C. Perception
D. Sensation
32: _____________ is the process of interpreting and understanding one's environment.
A. Adaptation
B. Transduction
C. Perception
D. Sensation
33: Human beings produce over 500 different phonemes, of which the english language uses ____.
A. About 11
B. Approximately 26
C. About 45
D. Over 140
34: _____ rewards a person for desired behavior with a poker chip or some kind of play money.
A. Group
B. The token system
C. Transference
D. Meta-analysis.
E. Rational-emotive
35: Therapies directed at changing the disordered behavior are referred to as __________.
A. Action therapies
B. Insight therapies
C. Biomedical therapies
D. Relationship therapies
36: Humanistic therapy is to psychodynamic therapy as _____ is to _____.
A. Present; past
B. 1970s
C. Less
D. Most
E. One half
37: Integrative therapy is most compatible with the _____ model of abnormal behavior.
A. Psychodynamic
B. Humanistic
C. Biopsychosocial
D. Cognitive
38: Systematic desensitization involves _____.
A. Pairing a feared stimulus with a state of deep relaxation by being exposed to feared situations in a gradual hierarchical fashion
B. Trying to get the patient to stop having irrational thoughts and dysfunctional attitudes
C. Free association, dream interpretation, transference, and interpreting the client's resistance to discussing painful memories
D. If an individual with schizophrenia stops taking neuroleptic drugs, the symptoms return.
39: In the context of types of therapy, psychoanalysis is a _____ therapy.
A. Genuineness
B. Insight-oriented
C. Aversive conditioning
D. Free association
40: The creation of an anxiety hierarchy is a core feature of _____.
A. Observational learning
B. Observable behavior change.
C. Exposure therapy
D. Client behaviors are the problem
41: After 21 psychotherapy sessions, _____ of all clients show substantial improvement.
A. One half.
B. Borderline
C. Agreeableness
D. Antisocial
42: Compared with individual therapy, group therapy is _____ effective.
A. Much less
B. Somewhat less.
C. Just as.
D. More.
43: In 1952, noted psychologist _____ published a study challenging the effectiveness of _____ therapy.
A. Eysenck; psychodynamic
B. Psychodynamic
C. Cognitive
D. Humanistic
44: The model that proposes that humans strive to self-actualize is the ______ model.
A. Psychodynamic.
B. Cognitive.
C. Humanistic-existential
D. None of these
45: Treatment for dissociative identity disorder typically starts with ____.
A. Identifying one's
B. Labeling the disorder for the client
C. Working through traumatic memories
D. Finding the most appropriate medication
46: Cognitive therapists assume that problem behaviors and emotions are caused by _____.
A. Faulty thought processes and beliefs.
B. Biomedical therapy
C. Gradually withdrawn
D. Aversion therapy
47: A goal of family therapy is to ______.
A. Change the needs of individual family members
B. Improve family communication and interaction
C. Identify and treat the person in the family who is the source of the majority of the family's problems
D. Teach family members to remain neutral on sensitive issues
48: A health psychologist is least likely to _____.
A. Study interpersonal relationships among nurses and doctors
B. Teach people to be more assertive or less assertive
C. Inform patients and their families regarding what to expect during or after surgery
D. Educate the public regarding health maintenance
49: Psychotherapists who are ____ tend to be the most expensive.
A. In private practice.
B. In universities and/or colleges.
C. In mental institutions.
D. An insight therapist.
50: Ten percent calcofluor white stain is often used in wet mounts of _________.
A. Bacteria
B. Parasites
C. Molds
D. Protozoa
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