Clinical Psychology Vocabulary Practice Test

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• Which statement about sensitivity is correct?
• Neurotransmitter definition and mood regulation pair:
• Dissociation is most commonly seen in which type of disorders?
• Which statement best describes specificity?
• In the realm of neurocognitive disorders, which condition is characterized by acute onset, fluctuating attention, and disturbances in awareness?
• What is the rare dissociative disorder characterized by two or more distinct and alternating personalities (formerly called multiple personality disorder)?
• Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors, including Systematic Desensitization and other exposure therapies, aversive conditioning, and token economy, is called what?
• Which concept holds that mental disorders have physical causes that can be diagnosed and treated, often in hospital?
• What is ACT in psychotherapy?
• Which disorder is defined by at least two weeks of five or more symptoms, with at least one symptom being depressed mood or loss of interest?
• Which condition involves involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs as a potential side effect of long-term antipsychotic use?
• Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique emphasized free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences as routes to insight. Which therapy is this?
• Duty of confidentiality limits:
• Which therapy focuses on unconscious processes and often uses interpretive methods to reveal hidden conflicts from childhood?
• What is psychodynamic therapy and its core concept?
• Which mental health professional is a medical doctor who can prescribe medications and perform surgery?
• What is the false belief, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders?
• Which therapy is derived from the psychoanalytic tradition and emphasizes unconscious forces and childhood experiences?
• fMRI use in clinical psychology:
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is classified under which broader category?
• Hoarding Disorder is classified under which broader category of disorders?
• Core feature of trauma- and stressor-related disorders?
• Affect vs mood distinction
• Token economy is particularly effective for which populations?
• Which eating disorder is defined by recurrent binge eating followed by compensatory weight-loss behaviors such as vomiting or laxative use?
• Which dissociative disorder involves memory loss for personal information with travel away from home and the establishment of a new identity, while maintaining other skills?
• What is the name of a psychological disorder where symptoms are bodily in form without an identifiable medical cause, and includes Illness Anxiety Disorder and Conversion Disorder?
• Deinstitutionalization began with the introduction of what?
• Which disorder is characterized by a persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions due to a perceived need to save them?
• What does the field of psychometrics study?
• Which therapy treats people within the context of the family system?
• How does hypomania differ from mania?
• What are the five factors in the Five-Factor Model (OCEAN)?
• Which therapy was developed by Albert Ellis and is known for its direct challenge to irrational beliefs?
• Sleep-wake disorders and examples
• Which eating disorder involves binge eating followed by compensatory behaviors such as vomiting or laxative use?
• The psychoanalytic technique in which the therapist interprets the symbolic meaning of a client's dreams is called?
• Which eating disorder involves significant binge-eating episodes without compensatory behaviors like purging or fasting?
• Which term describes the procedure for statistically combining results from many different research studies?
• Dissociative Amnesia is a dissociative disorder characterized by memory loss for autobiographical information.
• Which statement best describes convergent validity?
• Which form evaluates agreement among scorers or across items within a test?
• Which statement about divergent validity is true?
• An eating disorder where a person maintains a starvation diet despite being underweight, sometimes accompanied by excessive exercise.
• The collaborative relationship between therapist and client built on trust and mutual goals is called what?
• A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate clients' growth, is called what?
• Beck's cognitive triad includes negative views about which three aspects?
• A group composed of people who have similar problems and meet together without a therapist for discussion and emotional support (example Alcoholics Anonymous) is called?
• What are the core features of psychosis?
• Which mental health professional tends to treat less severe problems and may hold a master's in counseling?
• Which form specifically assesses stability of a measure across time?
• According to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream is called?
• Which disorder is characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and diminished or inappropriate emotional expression?
• Which neurodegenerative disorder is described as a fatal disease with progressive memory loss, and is associated with acetylcholine deficiency?
• Which concept emphasizes using the best available research evidence in clinical practice in conjunction with clinical expertise and patient preferences?
• Which class of medications used to treat schizophrenia can produce Parkinson-like symptoms and tardive dyskinesia as side effects?
• Reliability in psychological testing refers to what?
• Autism Spectrum Disorder is often discussed in relation to Theory of Mind and Mirror Neurons. Which disorder is this most closely associated with?
• In Major Depressive Disorder, symptoms must cause what?
• What is the general term for treatment involving psychological techniques delivered through interactions with a trained therapist?
• Which term describes therapies that aim to improve functioning by increasing a person's awareness of underlying motives and defenses?
• What are the core components of cognitive behavioral therapy?
• Validity in psychological testing refers to what?
• What is an IQ score, and which tests measure it?
• What is malingering and which tests help detect it (e.g., TOMM)?
• Which term is NOT one of the Big Five traits (the OCEAN model)?
• Which treatment involves exposure to bright light in a timed daily session to regulate mood, often used for Seasonal Affective Disorder?
• Which confrontational cognitive therapy, founded by Albert Ellis, challenges illogical attitudes?
• Which term describes the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain to stimulate or suppress brain activity?
• Which term denotes therapy that relies primarily on talking to address psychological difficulties?
• In a double-blind design, which statement is true?
• Which professionals typically hold an MSW or DSW and include a supervised internship and certification process?
• Which personality disorder is defined by excessive reliance on others for support and decision-making?
• Define functional analysis in behavioral assessment.
• What term describes a lack of emotional responsiveness often observed in some mental health conditions?
• Which term describes the noninvasive brain stimulation technique that uses brief magnetic pulses to stimulate or suppress neural activity?
• Self-efficacy and clinical relevance
• Which exposure-based technique pairs a relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-provoking stimuli?
• Which therapy aims to integrate different and sometimes opposing aspects of personality into a unified sense of self?
• Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation; increase GABA in brain; Ex: Xanax or Ativan (benzodiazepines) what are they?
• Which term describes the addition of inappropriate behaviors such as hallucinations and delusions in schizophrenia?
• Which term refers to the broad class of disorders that includes phobias, social anxiety, panic, agoraphobia, and generalized anxiety?
• Which term describes positive psychological changes resulting from struggling with extremely challenging life circumstances?
• Which therapy is conducted with groups rather than individuals, offering social interaction benefits?
• Which counterconditioning method associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior, such as drinking?
• Which term best describes a lack of emotional expression, commonly listed as a negative symptom in schizophrenia?
• Which statement is true about divergent (discriminant) validity?
• Which therapies aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person's awareness of underlying motives and defenses?
• Which statement best describes convergent validity?
• What mental health professional is a medical doctor and the only mental health professionals who can prescribe medication or perform surgery?
• Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) is used to assess?
• Which therapy is associated with Fritz Perls?
• What best describes construct validity?
• In Freud's dream theory, the term for the hidden meaning of a dream is:
• In psychological testing, what are norms?
• Which term refers to the ability to correctly identify true negatives?
• Define PPV and NPV in the context of a clinical test.
• A personality disorder characterized by a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, often aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist.
• Which option best describes the core pattern of oppositional defiant disorder?
• According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream is called?
• Define neurocognitive disorder terminology in DSM-5-TR.
• Which psychosurgical procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain?
• Which therapy involves prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the patient's physiology?
• Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies is a feature of which therapy?
• Therapy that uses a timed daily dose of intense light for Seasonal Affective Disorder?
• What does anhedonia refer to?
• A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient
• Executive function is a set of cognitive processes for goal-directed behavior. Which are examples of deficits?
• In psychoanalysis, what term refers to the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material?
• Which therapy is a popular integrative approach that combines cognitive change with behavioral change?
• Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) and purpose
• What term refers to a group of disorders marked by irrational ideas, distorted perceptions, and loss of contact with reality?
• Which therapy teaches new, adaptive ways of thinking and includes Beck's therapy for depression as part of it?
• Which dissociative disorder is defined by an inability to recall important personal information, usually related to a traumatic or stressful event, that is not due to ordinary forgetfulness?
• Which therapy uses computer-generated or electronic simulations to help people confront fears in a safe setting?
• Which professionals typically have earned a master's degree or doctoral degree in social work (MSW or DSW), which includes a supervised internship, and have passed a certification exam?
• Which disorder involves fear or avoidance of situations where escape might be difficult, such as crowds or open spaces?
• Which therapy aims to help clients understand and modify thinking patterns while also changing behavior, often abbreviated as CBT?
• Which neurotransmitter-related hypothesis is associated with schizophrenia?
• Which form of schizophrenia has symptoms that typically appear in late adolescence or early adulthood, with longer psychotic episodes and shorter recovery periods as people age?
• What is the significance of clinical significance vs statistical significance?
• Which classification manual for mental disorders is widely used in clinical psychology?
• Which therapy is a humanistic approach developed by Carl Rogers that emphasizes active listening and an accepting environment?
• Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder; examples Thorazine, Risperdal, Zyprexa; side effects include Parkinson-like symptoms and tardive dyskinesia; what are these drugs called?
• What is the term for the phenomenon in which a patient directs feelings for significant people onto the therapist?
• Which therapy uses the group setting to help people practice new social behaviors and receive feedback?
• Which term defines clinical decision making that integrates best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences?
• What is affect in psychology?
• According to DSM-5-TR criteria, Major Depressive Disorder requires at least five of nine symptoms during the same 2-week period, with at least one being depressed mood or anhedonia, and the symptoms must cause distress or impairment.
• Which test is commonly used to assess intellectual functioning in children?
• Which term describes the technique of examining dreams for symbolic meaning?
• Cronbach's alpha is used to assess
• The absence of appropriate behaviors such as flat affect and reduced movement is referred to as what symptom category in schizophrenia?
• Which statement best describes the DSM-5-TR criteria for Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
• Which disorder is described as alternating between depression and an overexcited state of mania?
• In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious by relaxing and saying whatever comes to mind is called?
• OCD obsessions vs compulsions: BEST describes obsessions:
• Which disorder involves intense fear and avoidance of social situations due to fear of being judged?
• Which term describes a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation?
• Inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning, including a range of personality disorders.
• What term describes positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises?
• The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior?
• Define reductionism risk in psychiatric diagnosis.
• Which condition is characterized by bizarre or frenzied movements, immobility, waxy flexibility, mutism, negativism, echolalia, or withdrawal?
• What are the negative symptoms of schizophrenia?
• Which professionals may or may not be psychiatrists, but follow the teaching of Freud and practice psychoanalysis or other psychodynamic therapies?
• Autism Spectrum Disorder falls under which category of disorders?
• Which operant conditioning-based approach uses tokens that can be exchanged for privileges to reinforce desirable behavior?
• Five-Factor Model is known as:
• Which mental health professional tends to deal with less severe mental health problems and may hold a master's degree (MA) in counseling?
• Which of the following is a positive symptom of schizophrenia?
• Which disorder is characterized by very specific physical symptoms that are not compatible with recognized medical or neurological conditions?
• Which neurocognitive disorder is characterized by impaired attention and a lack of awareness of the environment?
• A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance, is known as what?
• In OCD, obsessions are best described as:
• Which neurotransmitter is primarily associated with Alzheimer's disease according to the material?
• What is insight in psychotherapy?
• In DSM-5-TR mood disorders, what is a specifier?
• Which personality disorder is characterized by an inflated sense of self-importance and a need for excessive admiration?
• A disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions) is known as what?
• Which of the following is an example of a neurodevelopmental disorder?
• Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight is called what?
• In psychology, what is dissociation?
• Which anxiety disorder is defined by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread with chest pain and fear of next attack?
• Which therapy technique uses systematic desensitization and other exposure methods as a form of learning-based treatment?
• Which therapeutic approach emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and the client's self-actualization, often associated with Carl Rogers?
• A behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors, and includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning, is known as what?
• Delirium features:
• Which form of schizophrenia can begin at any age and is often triggered by an emotionally traumatic event?
• Which personality disorder is associated with excessive emotionality and attention-seeking behavior?
• What is the study of environmental influences on gene expression that occur without a change in DNA sequence?
• Which term refers to a syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior?
• What is the mechanism of antidepressant medications in the SSRI class?
• Which disorder involves haunting memories and avoidance after a traumatic event, with symptoms persisting for four weeks or more?
• Reliability in psychological measurement refers to the consistency or stability of a measure. Which two forms are the primary forms used in clinical assessment?
• Which disorder involves interpreting normal physical sensations as symptoms of disease, previously called hypochondriasis?
• A bond of trust and mutual understanding between therapist and client that helps address problems?
• What term describes therapies that treat anxieties by exposing individuals to feared situations, either in imagination or real life?
• Differentiating structured vs semi-structured clinical interview:
• Controversial, rare disorders in which conscious awareness becomes dissociated from memories, thoughts, and feelings; Includes Dissociative Identity Disorder and Dissociative Amnesia.
• Which of the following is NOT typically classified as a sleep-wake disorder?
• Which disorder is commonly treated with Lithium as a biological treatment?
• What term describes a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state with poor judgment commonly seen in manic episodes?
• Alcoholics Anonymous is an example of which type of group described in mental health vocabulary?
• Delusion vs hallucination
• The disorder characterized by inattention and hyperactivity is called what?
• What term describes the process of shifting care from inpatient to community-based facilities?
• CFI purpose—which statement is correct?
• A treatment for phobias in which clients are exposed repeatedly and intensively to a feared object and made to see that it is harmless is called?
• Drugs used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, OCD, and PTSD; Ex: SSRI (Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil); SNRI (Cymbalta); New research into Ketamine
• Catatonia features:
• Which disorder is marked by extreme inattention and/or hyperactivity and impulsivity?
• Which term refers to a surgical procedure that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior?
• Catatonia is best described as:
• In psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent) is known as what?
• Which statement best describes the Tarasoff decision?
• Which neurodevelopmental disorder is characterized by inattention and hyperactivity?
• Not a neurodevelopmental disorder
• Conversion Disorder is also known as which term?
• Which category includes phobias, social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia, and generalized anxiety disorder?
• Which behavioral therapy is commonly used to treat phobias by gradual exposure?
• Which statement correctly describes the relationship between reliability and validity?
• Which concept explains biological explanations of mental disorders that can be treated in hospitals?
• A feeding and eating disorder defined by a starvation diet underweight, sometimes with excessive exercise.
• Which option is not a core feature of trauma- and stressor-related disorders?
• Remission vs relapse
• What is the primary purpose of test construction in psychometrics?
• Which disorder is characterized by intense fear of social situations due to worry about judgment?
• In phobia treatment, which approach involves exposing the client gradually rather than all at once?
• What term describes an approach in psychotherapy that combines techniques from different schools of thought?
• Which therapy involves processing traumatic memories with guided eye movements and is used for PTSD?
• What are false sensory experiences, such as hearing voices or seeing something that is not present?
• In psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight is called what?
• Which therapy views an individual's problematic behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members?
• Ego-syntonic symptoms are characterized by:
• In clinical psychology, fMRI measures brain activity by detecting blood flow changes and is used to study neural correlates of disorders and treatment effects, mainly in research. Which option matches?
• Which term refers to false beliefs that are firmly held despite contrary evidence, often seen in schizophrenia?
• Which model posits that a predisposition interacts with major life stressors to influence the development of disorders?
• Which edition of the DSM is the standard for classifying mental disorders?
• Which term describes the category that includes both Dissociative Identity Disorder and Dissociative Amnesia?
• What term refers to the personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and trauma?
• Which field studies the effects of drugs on mind and behavior?
• Which mental health professional has a doctoral degree (PhD or PsyD) and uses different therapeutic approaches depending on training and diagnosis?
• Emotional regulation is defined as: