Abnormal Psychology 7th Edition By Susan Nolen
Hoeksema -Test Bank
Chapter 03
Assessing and Diagnosing Abnormality
1. Current guidelines for diagnosing mental disorders use to make diagnoses.
2. ranges of scores
3. subjective systems
4. C. thresholds
5. continuum models
Page: 59
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APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes inpsychology.
Bloom’s: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Define key concepts of assessment.Topic:
Assessment
2. The process of gathering information about an individual’s symptoms and the
possible causes of these symptoms is referred to as .
3. A. assessment
4. diagnosis
5. treatment
6. study
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APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes inpsychology.
Bloom’s: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Define key concepts of assessment.Topic:
Assessment
3. Which of the following is a label for a set of symptoms that often occur together?
,4. Marker
5. Typology
6. C. Diagnosis
7. Assessment
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APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes inpsychology.
Bloom’s: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Define key concepts of assessment.Topic:
Assessment
4. Tina’s parents are concerned because she seems to have trouble writing. She often writes
her numbers backwards and misspells words. The school suggests thatthey seek
psychological counseling for Tina, especially since the problem occurred after the family’s car
accident. Why might the family need a psychologist?
5. A. Psychologists can assess cognitive deficits such as learning disabilities.
6. A psychologist would be more sympathetic to the parents’ concerns.
7. A psychologist could consult after ruling out biological causes for the problem.
8. Psychologists are concerned with the emotional well-being of individuals.
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APA Outcome: 1.3 Describe applications of psychology.Bloom’s:
Apply
Difficulty: Difficult
Learning Objective: Define key concepts of assessment.Topic:
Assessment
5. Which term refers to the accuracy of a test in assessing what it is supposed tomeasure?
6. Reliability
7. B. Validity
8. Constructability
9. Generalizability
Page: 60
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APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes inpsychology.
Bloom’s: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools.Topic:
Assessment
6. Jason was taking a test to measure his general level of anxiety. When he glanced over the
test, the questions seemed as though they were related to his problem. In this scenario, the test
most likely had validity.
7. predictive
8. concurrent
,9. content
10. D. face
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APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes inpsychology.
Bloom’s: Apply
Difficulty: Difficult
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools.Topic:
Assessment
7. If a test assesses all important aspects of a phenomenon, the test is said to have
validity.
8. A. content
9. construct
10. concurrent
11. contextual
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APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes inpsychology.
Bloom’s: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools.Topic:
Assessment
8. Mark takes a test to measure his general level of anxiety. After taking the test, Mark
realizes that the test contains questions only on the physical symptoms of anxiety and no
questions on the cognitive symptoms, which are equally important aspects of the
phenomenon of anxiety. In this case, the test mostly lacks .
9. alternate-form reliability
10. B. content validity
11. test-retest reliability
12. predictive validity
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APA Outcome: 1.3 Describe applications of psychology.Bloom’s:
Apply
Difficulty: Difficult
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools.Topic:
Assessment
9. validity is the extent to which a test yields the same results as other,
established measures of the same phenomena.
10. Construct
11. B. Concurrent
12. Content
13. Predictive
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APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes inpsychology.
Bloom’s: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools.Topic:
Assessment
10. A test is considered to have predictive validity when it:
11. measures what it intends to measure and not something else.
12. seems on its face to measure what it intends to measure.
13. yields results similar to those of other established measures.
14. D. reliably represents how a person will think, feel, or behave in the future.
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APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes inpsychology.
Bloom’s: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools.Topic:
Assessment
11. The extent to which a test measures what it is supposed to measure and notsomething else
altogether is representative of validity.
12. predictive
13. concurrent
14. C. construct
15. face
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APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes inpsychology.
Bloom’s: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools.Topic:
Assessment
12. A test that is consistent in measuring what it is supposed to measure isconsidered to
have .
13. A. reliability
14. generalizability
15. validity
16. constructability
Page: 61
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APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes inpsychology.
Bloom’s: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Hoeksema -Test Bank
Chapter 03
Assessing and Diagnosing Abnormality
1. Current guidelines for diagnosing mental disorders use to make diagnoses.
2. ranges of scores
3. subjective systems
4. C. thresholds
5. continuum models
Page: 59
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes inpsychology.
Bloom’s: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Define key concepts of assessment.Topic:
Assessment
2. The process of gathering information about an individual’s symptoms and the
possible causes of these symptoms is referred to as .
3. A. assessment
4. diagnosis
5. treatment
6. study
Page: 60
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes inpsychology.
Bloom’s: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Define key concepts of assessment.Topic:
Assessment
3. Which of the following is a label for a set of symptoms that often occur together?
,4. Marker
5. Typology
6. C. Diagnosis
7. Assessment
Page: 60
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes inpsychology.
Bloom’s: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Define key concepts of assessment.Topic:
Assessment
4. Tina’s parents are concerned because she seems to have trouble writing. She often writes
her numbers backwards and misspells words. The school suggests thatthey seek
psychological counseling for Tina, especially since the problem occurred after the family’s car
accident. Why might the family need a psychologist?
5. A. Psychologists can assess cognitive deficits such as learning disabilities.
6. A psychologist would be more sympathetic to the parents’ concerns.
7. A psychologist could consult after ruling out biological causes for the problem.
8. Psychologists are concerned with the emotional well-being of individuals.
Page: 60
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA Outcome: 1.3 Describe applications of psychology.Bloom’s:
Apply
Difficulty: Difficult
Learning Objective: Define key concepts of assessment.Topic:
Assessment
5. Which term refers to the accuracy of a test in assessing what it is supposed tomeasure?
6. Reliability
7. B. Validity
8. Constructability
9. Generalizability
Page: 60
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes inpsychology.
Bloom’s: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools.Topic:
Assessment
6. Jason was taking a test to measure his general level of anxiety. When he glanced over the
test, the questions seemed as though they were related to his problem. In this scenario, the test
most likely had validity.
7. predictive
8. concurrent
,9. content
10. D. face
Page: 61
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes inpsychology.
Bloom’s: Apply
Difficulty: Difficult
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools.Topic:
Assessment
7. If a test assesses all important aspects of a phenomenon, the test is said to have
validity.
8. A. content
9. construct
10. concurrent
11. contextual
Page: 61
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes inpsychology.
Bloom’s: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools.Topic:
Assessment
8. Mark takes a test to measure his general level of anxiety. After taking the test, Mark
realizes that the test contains questions only on the physical symptoms of anxiety and no
questions on the cognitive symptoms, which are equally important aspects of the
phenomenon of anxiety. In this case, the test mostly lacks .
9. alternate-form reliability
10. B. content validity
11. test-retest reliability
12. predictive validity
Page: 61
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA Outcome: 1.3 Describe applications of psychology.Bloom’s:
Apply
Difficulty: Difficult
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools.Topic:
Assessment
9. validity is the extent to which a test yields the same results as other,
established measures of the same phenomena.
10. Construct
11. B. Concurrent
12. Content
13. Predictive
Page: 61
, Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes inpsychology.
Bloom’s: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools.Topic:
Assessment
10. A test is considered to have predictive validity when it:
11. measures what it intends to measure and not something else.
12. seems on its face to measure what it intends to measure.
13. yields results similar to those of other established measures.
14. D. reliably represents how a person will think, feel, or behave in the future.
Page: 61
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes inpsychology.
Bloom’s: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools.Topic:
Assessment
11. The extent to which a test measures what it is supposed to measure and notsomething else
altogether is representative of validity.
12. predictive
13. concurrent
14. C. construct
15. face
Page: 61
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes inpsychology.
Bloom’s: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast assessment tools.Topic:
Assessment
12. A test that is consistent in measuring what it is supposed to measure isconsidered to
have .
13. A. reliability
14. generalizability
15. validity
16. constructability
Page: 61
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APA Outcome: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes inpsychology.
Bloom’s: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
