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\Social Science\ Psychology
You administer a test to a sample of young adults with PTSD and, from
their scores, calculate a kappa coefficient of .95. This indicates that the
test is:
a. reliable.
b. valid.
c. reliable and valid.
d. reliable but not valid.
a.
,You are hired by a small company to provide evaluation and
counseling services to employees. The company owner tells you that
employees routinely sign a waiver of confidentiality when they are
hired. In this
situation, you should:
a. tell the employer that you can give her only very limited and
relevant information about an employee even though the
employee has signed a waiver.
b. clarify the company policy with the employees that you
see and determine if they want to continue in counseling.
c. provide the employer with information only after you have
confirmed that the employee has actually signed the waiver.
d. refuse to give the employer any information about the
employees that you see.
b.
,An adolescent is brought to therapy by her mother who says the girl
has
recently become "another person." She says her daughter used to
be easy-going and easy to get along with and was well-liked at
school by her peers and teachers. However, now her daughter is
constantly irritable, is smoking and drinking, and has started
having trouble at school. When the therapist
interviews the girl, he learns that she is engaging in high-risk sexual
behavior, but the girl feels that nothing bad can ever happen to her.
Based on these symptoms, the best diagnosis is:
a. ADHD.
b. Conduct Disorder.
c. Bipolar I Disorder.
d. Bipolar II Disorder.
c.
During the first few sessions of family therapy, a structural family
therapist makes use of "tracking" and "mimesis" in order to:
a. keep from becoming emotionally triangulated into the family
system.
b. join with the family system.
c. make initial changes in the family structure.
d. reduce stress in the family system.
b.
, When a program to reduce aggression in children is based on the
work of Patterson and his colleagues, it will include which of the
following?
a. providing the child with opportunities for catharsis
b. training parents in child management skills
c. increasing the child's perspective-taking skills
d. individual insight-oriented therapy for each parent
b.
Which of the following is true about the retrograde amnesia that
occurs as the result of a moderate to severe head injury?
a. it is limited to recent long-term memories
b. it is limited to remote long-term memories
c. when it begins to resolve, the most recent memories return first
d. when it begins to resolve, the most remote memories return first
d.
Research comparing heterogeneous to homogeneous work
groups has found that heterogeneous groups:
a. are more creative and better at decision-making.
b. are more creative but less productive overall.
c. make better decisions but are less productive overall.
d. are more creative but worse at decision-making.
a.